Publications

Academic publications:

• “Selling the World: Public Relations and the Global Expansion of General Motors, 1922–1940.” Business History Review 92 (Fall 2018): 483–507.
• “Locking the Gates: Yale University and Police Power in the Postindustrial City, 1959–1976.” In Cops on Campus: Critical Perspectives on Policing in Higher Education. Edited by Yalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, and John Joseph Sloan III. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024.
• “The South Shall Ride Again: Mass Transit and the Making of Modern Atlanta.” In Urban Infrastructure: Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World. Edited by Joseph Heathcott, Jonathan Soffer, and Rae Zimmerman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
• Review of Historicizing Infrastructure by Andreas Marklund and Mogens Rüdiger, eds. Technology and Culture 59 (Jul. 2018): 791–792.
• Review of Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports by Anke Ortlepp. Atlanta Studies (Nov. 2017), online.
• “The South Shall Ride Again: The Origins of MARTA and the Making of the Urban South.” Yale Historical Review 2 (2013): 37–57.

 

Selected writing for popular audiences:

• “What Historic Preservation Is Doing to American Cities,” The Atlantic, May 2, 2022.
• “The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification,” The Atlantic, Jan. 2, 2021.
• “The Post-Planning Pandemic,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Jul. 2, 2020.
• “Politics Is Failing Mass Transit,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Jan. 29, 2018.
• “How a Major in History Gives You the Intangible Edge,” AHA Today, Mar. 28, 2016.