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 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 occasional newsletter, Celestial Pablum.

A Mitchell-Lama apartment building with a New York City public school in the foreground. Public and quasi-public institutions abound in New York City.

A Mitchell-Lama apartment building with a New York City public school in the foreground.