Position/Role
Professor
Director, M.A. in Liberal Studies Graduate Program
Department
Building
New Academic Building
Room
3007
Phone
E-mail
Courses Taught
- Topics in U.S History: Struggles for Justice
- Photography and American Culture
- Film Ideas and Aesthetics: The 1930s
- History of U.S. Women
- History of the Women's Movement
- Narrative and History
- Media Studies
Degrees
- B.A. Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
- M.A. City College, City University of New York, New York, New York
- Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research Interests
- Twentieth Century U.S. History
- Cultural History
- Social Movements
- Visual Culture and the History of Photography
- Consumer Culture
- Media History
Publications
- "Imagining Racial Equality: Local 65’s Union Photographers, Postwar Civil Rights, and the Power of the Real, 1940–1955." Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 96-125.
- Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and the Twentieth Century: Reinventing Self and Nation. New York: Routledge Press, 2019.
- Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- "Jon Lewis: Photographs of the California Grape Strike," review, Southern California Quarterly, Winter 2014.
- "Re-framing Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May, 1937," American Studies, March 2008.
- "Picturing the Poor: Jacob Riis's Reform Photography, review of " Reviews in American History, December 2008.
- "An Impresario for the Working Class, review of Moe Foner's Not for Bread Alone," New Labor Forum, Summer 2003.
Office Hours
- Tuesdays & Thursdays: 1:00pm-2:30pm
- Also by appointment
Personal Website