PhD, History, Temple University
M.A., History, Villanova University
B.A., History, Cultural Studies & Latin American Studies, Villanova University

Courses:

• World History II
• History of the United States I
• History of the United States II
• Twentieth Century America
• The History of American Movies
• The History of American Television and Radio
• Colloquium: African American History After 1900
• Directed Readings

Select Publications:

• Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia, New York: New York University Press, 2024.
• “Dig This!: Teen Journalism as a Deterrent from Black Gang Life in Philadelphia, 1968-1970” in The Journal of African American History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2026).
• “The Black Urban Rebellions of the 1960s,” in Rassismus in den USA: Handbuch zu Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik (Racism in the United States: A Handbook on History, Society, and Politics), edited by Silvan Niedermeier (Tübingen: UVK Press, 2025).
• “‘Stop Talking and Act’: The Battle Between Tough on Crime Policing and Guardianship of Black Juvenile Gangs in Philadelphia, 1958-1969" in The Journal of Urban History, edited by Walter C. Stern (Newbury Park: SAGE Publications, Jan. 2, 2023): 1-20.