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I am an Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. I am also the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. My PhD is in American Studies, from NYU, in 2015.
My second book is titled Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves. It will be published by Basic Books in Spring 2026. It analyzes how police developed political power through unions and other organizations from the 1960s to the present.
My first book is titled Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing, published by University of California Press in Fall 2019. My research interests cluster around a few domains: security, policing, and counterinsurgency; the entwinement of foreign and domestic policy; and urban politics and radical social movements. My broad theoretical and methodological agenda is to connect these domains through a critical analysis of race and racism.
At Johns Hopkins, I have taught courses on police and prisons, Black social movements and Black internationalism, the Cold War and War on Terror, social theory, and law and racism.
My writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Artforum, The Baffler, Boston Review, Cities, City, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Journal of Urban History, Harvard Design Magazine, Humanity, Inquest, Modern American History, NACLA Report on the Americas, The Nation, The New Republic, Jacobin, The Brooklyn Rail, Times Higher Education, Viewpoint Magazine, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. I also have edited an online music magazine.
For a complete CV or anything else, please contact me at my JHU e-mail address.