Eric Gaither is an oral history practitioner; studies intellectual and cultural history, or the history of ideas; and the history of science. His projects imbricate oral and written language(s) of communities of color and immigrants in the U.S. South to explore orature and (visual) narrative possibilities at the intersection(s) of English and heritage languages other than English.

He also interrogates digital ontologies and archival and curatorial language practices that promote erasure and algorithmic bias, obfuscate epistemological outcomes, and disrupt public and private access to content generated by and/or about Black, Indigenous, and historically and legally Black-adjacent people(s).

Eric is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, history academic honor society, and is a Jacob K. Javits fellow-alum, in the discipline of history.