Academic Publications
The Study of Racism and Policing in the United States | Annual Review of Political Science, 2025 | Co-authored with Spencer Piston, Kaneesha R. Johnson, and Selma Hedlund
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails | Criminology, 2025 | Co-authored with Heather Schoenfeld and Marielis Rosa
Works in Progress
“A Way Out of No Way? Strikes by Black Sanitation Workers and the Pathway of Public Sector Unions, 1930-1980.” Presented at APSA 2025 Annual Meeting panel on Strikes & Public Policy, 9/12/2025.
“Spank the Babysitters, Back the Blue: Stratified Public Sector Labor Rights in an Era of Right-Wing Ascendancy.” Presented at APSA 2025 Annual Meeting Pre-Conference Workshop on the Politics of Public Labor, 9/10/2025, and currently under review.
“Policing the Possible: A Qualitative Analysis of Mayors’ Views of Police Violence and the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests.” Co-authored paper in progress.
Op-Eds & Journalism
The government is failing health care workers. Unions aren’t. | Strikewave, February 3, 2021
“Soul Searching” Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People | Truthout, June 22, 2020
Poverty wages in nursing homes have accelerated the coronavirus outbreak. | The Boston Globe, April 25, 2020
They called us ‘flat-earthers.’ But we were right. | The Boston Globe, November 20, 2019
Essays & Criticism
Monsters and Mass Politics | Protean, August 4, 2022
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whale | Jacobin, February 6, 2022
The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist | LA Review of Books Blog, June 24, 2020
Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World | Black Issues in Philosophy Blog of the American Philosophical Association, February 18, 2020
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