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I am an Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. I am also the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. My PhD is in American Studies, from NYU, in 2015.
In Spring 2022, I was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress.
My book, published with University of California Press in Fall 2019, is titled Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. My research interests cluster around a few domains: security, policing, and counterinsurgency; the entwinement of foreign and domestic policy; and urbanization. My broad theoretical and methodological agenda is to connect these domains through a critical analysis of race and racism.
My new research project concerns police participation in formal politics in the United States since the 1970s through professional organizations and unions, as well as police participation in more informal and irruptive social protests.
At Johns Hopkins, I have taught courses on police and prisons, Black social movements and Black internationalism, social theory, and law and racism.
My writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Artforum, The Baffler, Boston Review, Cities, City, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Journal of Urban History, Harvard Design Magazine, Humanity, Inquest, Modern American History, NACLA Report on the Americas, The Nation, The New Republic, Jacobin, The Brooklyn Rail, Times Higher Education, Viewpoint Magazine, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. I also have edited an online music magazine.
For a complete CV or anything else, please contact me at my JHU e-mail address.