RESEARCH

RESEARCH

 Selected Scholarly Articles and Reviews

  • “Between Continuity and Contingency” (on Brent Cebul, et. al., eds., Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century and Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern) Reviews in American History (2023)

  • “Structures of the Impasse: Notes With and Athwart Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism,” in Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre, eds., Culture^2: Theorizing Theory for the Twentieth-First Century (2022)

  • “The Forces of Decline and Regeneration: A Discussion of Jane Jacobs and Gentrification” (with Nate Storring and Jennifer Hock), in Christoph Lindner and Gerard Sandoval, eds., Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City (2021)

  • “Dilemmas of World-Wide Thinking: Popular Geographies and the Problem of Empire in Wendell Willkie's Search for One World” Modern American History (2018)

  • “When Wendell Willkie Went Visiting: Between Interdependency and Exceptionalism in the Public Feeling for One World” American Literary History (2014)

  • “The Cultural Structure of Postwar Urbanism” American Quarterly (2014)

  • “Introduction: Thinking Through Urban Renewal” (with Michael Carriere) Journal of Urban History (2013)

  • “The Roots and Routes of Urban Renewal” Journal of Urban History (2013)

  • “Rip it Up and Start Again? Response to Forum on ‘The Roots and Routes of Urban Renewal’” Journal of Urban History (2014)

  • “Raising The Wild Flag: E.B. White, World Government, and Local Cosmopolitanism in the Postwar Moment” The Journal of Transnational American Studies (2012)

  • “Making Place: The Cultural History of the Built Environment” Proceedings of Spaces of History/Histories of Space, University of California, Berkeley (2010)

  • “The Battle of Lincoln Square: Neighborhood Culture and the Rise of Resistance to Urban Renewal” Planning Perspectives (2009)

  • Suburbs and the American Century Reviews in American History (2009)

  • New York, Fiscal Crisis, and a Social Movement for Bankers? Reviews in American History (2008)

  • Review of Daniel Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity and Tom Frank, The Conquest of Cool, American Studies International (1999)