Department of History

Advisor to:

• Kashia Arnold
• Doug Genens
• Nora Kassner
• Caitlin Rathe
• Matthew Smith

Selected Publications:

Books

• Social Science for What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007)
• Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in 20th Century U.S. History (Princeton University Press, 2001)
• Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, co-edited with Chris Tilly and Lawrence Bobo, (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001)
• Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Politics, co-edited with Gwendolyn Mink, (ABC-Clio, 2004)

Articles and Chapters (Selected)

• “Narrator in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Economic Crisis from FDR to Obama,” in Recapturing the Oval Office, eds. Bruce J. Schulman and Brian Balogh (Cornell University Press, 2015)
• “Poverty and Paradox,” The Hedgehog Review, Fall 2014
• “The Global Great Society,” Passport: The Journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, January 2014
• “Bringing the Market Back In: Philanthropic Activism and Conservative Reform,” in Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Organizations in America’s Political Past and Present, eds. Elisabeth Clemens and Doug Guthrie (University of Chicago Press 2010)
• “The Privatized City: The Manhattan Institute, the Urban Crisis, and the Conservative Counterrevolution in New York,” Journal of Urban History January 2008
• “Financing the Counterrevolution,” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, ed. Bruce J. Schulman and Julian Zelizer (Harvard University Press 2008)
• “The Politics of Rich and Rich: Postwar Investigations of Foundations and the Rise of the Philanthropic Right,” in American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century, ed Nelson Lichtenstein. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)

Courses Taught:

syllabus 2019