Dr. Jesse Bayker is an Assistant Teaching Professor of History at Rutgers University–Camden and an affiliated faculty member with the Digital Studies Center (DiSC). His research and teaching interests include the history of gender and sexuality, LGBTQ history, digital history, U.S. history, and the history of New Jersey. Dr. Bayker is the developer of the New Jersey Slavery Records database and the co-director of the Black Camden Oral History Project.
Before joining the history department at Rutgers–Camden, Dr. Bayker worked as a Digital Archivist at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Dr. Bayker received a PhD in History from Rutgers University–New Brunswick and a BA in History and LGBTQ Studies from CUNY Brooklyn College. He completed a Mellon Fellowship at the Museum of the City of New York.
