SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
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Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Abolition Infrastructures: A Conversation with Rachel Herzing and Dean Spade,” Radical History Review on the “Political Lives of Infrastructure” (October 2023)
“Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century,” Enterprise & Society (December 2022)
"The Crisis of Insurance and the Insuring of the Crisis: Riot Reinsurance and Redlining in the Aftermath of the 1960s Uprisings," Journal of American History, 2021
Winner of the Pelzer Award from the Organization of American Historians for the best essay in American history by a graduate student
“The Broken Windows of the Bronx: Putting the Theory in Its Place,” American Quarterly, 2020
Co-winner of the Arnold Hirsch Award from the Urban History Association for the best article in a scholarly journal in 2020
"Unsettling 'Inner City': Liberal Protestantism and the Postwar Origins of a Keyword in Urban Studies," Antipode, 2018
"Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment," in Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, ed. Katherine McKittrick (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015)
Review Essays
“Bonded Metropolis: Race and the Shadowy World of Municipal Debt,” review of Destin Jenkins’ The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (University of Chicago, 2021), Reviews in American History (2021)
“The Privatized City from Below: Benjamin Holtzman’s The Long Crisis: New York City And The Path To Neoliberalism,” The Gotham Center for New York City History, April 22, 2021.
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