Paige M Magoto

Paige M Magoto

Paige M Magoto

Graduate Research Assistant

U.S. History: Women, Gender, and Sexuality; History of Sex Work; Race and Slavery; U.S Southern History; Digital History

I am a historian of gender and sexuality, with an explicit interest in sex work and workers of the Progressive Era United States. I recently completed my Master’s Thesis titled “Race, Sex Work and Spatial Segregation in Storyville, New Orleans” which focused on sexual and racial stereotypes an how they developed a culture of segregation and racial hierarchy in the legalized vice district Storyville from 1897-1917. Storyville is an infamous vice district located next to the French Quarter of New Orleans, which attempts to perpetuate the racial “fantasy” of the Old South through sex work, brothels, bars, and music. I am also a digital historian versed in data curation, visualizations, and the use of R, HTML, and Leaflet. With these skills, I was able to create a dataset of over 8,000 unique entries of the privately printed directories of Storyville called the Blue Books. With this dataset, I was able to explore how the dynamics between sex workers and madams within the district changed over time.

Selected Publications

  • "Breaking Through with Dignity at Clemson College in the Jim Crow South” with Dr. Vernon Burton and Fran Chapman to be included in Completing Clemson History by Dr. Josh Catalano and Dr. Rhondda Thomas
  • 50th Anniversary of the Political Science Department at Clemson University Website and Oral History Project (Summer 2024)  https://documentinghistory.clemson.edu/s/politicalscience/page/welcome. 

Education

  • BA in History, Georgia College and State University (May 2022)
    • Minor in Political Science
    • Magna Cum Laude
  • MA in History, Clemson University (May 2025)
    • Thesis: “Race, Sex Work and Spatial Segregation in Storyville, New Orleans: A Geospatial Study of the Infamous Southern Vice District”
      Advisors: Dr. Brent Morris (Southern History), Dr. Ryan Hilliard (Sexuality and Gender History), and Dr. Amanda Regan (Gender, Progressive Era and Digital History)
    • https://open.clemson.edu/all_theses/4466/

Recent Presentations

  • Panelist [Paige Magoto, Hallie Knipp, and Amber Edwards] “Practicing Data Feminism: Methodological Interventions in Historical Gender and Sexuality Studies” Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Annual Meeting, June 2025
  • Presenter [Paige Magoto and Dr. Amanda Regan], “Data Driven Pasts: Where Historical Inquiry Meets Computational Methods” Georgia College and State University: Annual Research Day, Milledgeville, GA, April 2025.