Scholarship and Biography

Current scholarship concerns the relationship between police and democracy in American history; ideas of time in the American Constitution, white supremacy in US state constitutions from the founding to the present; and qualitative and historical methods.

Honors

Visiting Fellow, Charles Warren Center for American History
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2006-2008
Fulbright Scholar - West Bank
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2010
Collaborative Research Grant - Anti-Civil Rights Networks
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 2010-2012
AFP Scholar
Open Society Foundations (United States, New York) - OSF, 2013-2015
Fulbright Scholar Award
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2016-2017

Organizational Affiliations

Luis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics, Department of Politics, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Department of History, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Department of African and African American Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Education

The New School for Social Research
Ph.D.
The New School for Social Research
M.A.
The George Washington University
B.A.