I'm an associate professor of U.S. history at the University of Baltimore. I’m currently writing Police Against The Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (under contract with Princeton University Press), a retelling of the civil rights movement through its overlooked work against police violence—and the police who attacked the movement with surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions.
My first book, From Head Shops to Whole Foods, explores how organic food stores, feminist enterprises, Black bookstores and other businesses emerged from movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
My research has been supported by awards from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Silvers Foundation, and the NEH Public Scholars Program. I've written for The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate, Jacobin, and The Washington Post, and my work has been highlighted in The New York Times, CNN, and Time.