Asha Marie is interested in contested symbolic landscapes, collective memory, and community building. As communities are still figuring out what to do with confederate and white supremacist monuments, road names, and other public symbolism while erecting racial symbols as acts of redress, her work considers the social utility of memory in recently developed community third spaces– specifically those that use the past as a touchpoint for present community identity. She is particularly interested in how Black Americans conceive of community while physical and symbolic cultural landscapes are being disrupted, moved, or disappearing altogether. Though her work is largely rooted in the US South (South Carolina specifically), she hopes to take a transnational and historical-comparative approach to understanding socio-spatial elements of collective memory and community building.