EDUCATION
Ph.D. History University of Rochester
M.A. History La Salle University
B.A. History La Salle University
ACADEMIC SPECIALTIES & INTERESTS
Modern America, 1865-Present; Urban American History; History of Philadelphia; African-American History; American Cultural and Intellectual History

PUBLICATIONS
“The White Island:” Whiteness in the Making of Public and Private Space in Northeast Philadelphia, 1854-1990 (Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Rochester, Proquest, 2016; pending book manuscript;)

Review of Trotter, Joseph; Day, Jared. Race and Renaissance: African-Americans in
Pittsburgh since World War II. H-Urban, H-Net Reviews

Review of Levenstein, Lisa. A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 80, No. 1, Winter 2013

Shopping Centers, in Howard Gillette and Charlene Mires, eds., The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia,
(Published, July 2013)

Northeast Philadelphia, in Howard Gillette and Charlene Mires, eds., The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia,
(Published February 2014)

Roosevelt Boulevard, in Howard Gillette and Charlene Mires, eds., The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia,
(Published October 2015)

BACKGROUND
Historical Consultant
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Playing and watching sports, especially baseball, soccer and tennis; singing and karaoke; reading history books/articles and “The Economist”; and writing

COURSES TAUGHT
Western Civilization I HS101
Western Civilization II HS102
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in American History HS105
History of the United States I HS103
History of the United States II HS104
The Making of Modern Philadelphia HS210
EXTRACURRICULARS
Co-Advisor for Phi Theta Kappa, Team Chaplain (Soccer and Baseball)