I am a writer, editor, and teacher based in New York City. I was born and raised in the Washington DC area.

I have a PhD in History from the CUNY Graduate Center, where I specialized in US urban history, particularly the history of New York City, and the history of capitalism. My abiding interest is in space and place. My dissertation, Runaway: A History of Postwar New York in Four Factories, explored the deindustrialization of New York City through case studies of “runaway” plants, or factories that left New York for the American South or abroad between 1945 and 1975.

I also work as an editor at Common Notions, an independent publisher based in New York and Philadelphia. You can check out our books at the above link. Take a look as well at our sibling projects, the Interference Archive (Brooklyn) and Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center (Philadelphia).

I am also an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and part-time faculty at the Parsons School of Design, where I am a proud member of ACT-UAW Local 7902.

On this site, you can find links to my writing, to public humanities projects to which I have contributed, and to photos I have taken.

Feel free as well to check out my roughly bimonthly newsletter, Celestial Pablum.