Her curatorial work has focused on little-known chapters in Southern history, which included the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in 1950s New Orleans and Japanese internments in Arkansas in the 1940s.
[7][10] With Beverly Greene Bond, Wilkerson Freeman is co-editor of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times, a two-volume series published in 2009 and 2015.
She discovered that they were an archive documenting New Orleans' Canal Street, Mardi Gras festivities, and the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in the McCarthy era.
[18] Wilkerson Freeman's project on Rohwer began in 2012 when she was contacted by the children of Paul and Ann Faris, who had photographed subjects of the camp in 1945.
The Faris couple took the photographs and conducted interviews for Allen H. Eaton's book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps.
[19] The second exhibition on the camps included additional photographs by the Faris couple and was held in Butler Center for Arkansas Studies from August to December 2017.