About

A native of Southern California, I did a stint in the Navy after high school and eventually completed my Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown University. I studied under the supervision of urban historians Elliott Gorn and Robert Self, urban sociologist John Logan, and urban planning expert Larry Bennett. I currently teach history at Long Beach City College. Before that, I taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research interests include economic inequality, the growth (and decline) of U.S. cities, the history of the sports business, racial violence, and the political views of professors. The University of Chicago press published my first book, Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality, in 2018; and my next book project, Riot Zone: Chicago 1919, is forthcoming with Temple University Press. I spend most of my spare time playing in the ocean, feeding Long Beach’s hummingbirds, and reading.