On February 28, I delivered the keynote address “The Consequences of Surveillance: Past, Present and Future” at Oregon State University. You can learn more about the event and lineup here.
Appearance on NPR to discuss the privacy implications of Amazon's Ring
In December, National Public Radio aired a segment of an interview about the privacy implications of Amazon’s surveillance doorbell Ring. You can listen to the segment here.
Short Historiography of 2019 Carceral Studies/Policing History
My co-editor of Discipling the City, and I wrote a short historiography covering recent developments in the fields of carceral studies, history of policing and incarceration, and state power. You can take a look at it here.
New Article in the Washington Post's Made by History series
“We fight because we believe there are real consequences to access. Exposing an unvarnished history of the NYPD would pressure the department to rethink tactics that have failed vulnerable communities in the past. Making police departments more transparent is an essential part of making officers more accountable for how they do their jobs. The ongoing political fight over transparency and accessibility are not just watchwords that will determine the future of policing. They are also the battleground on which we are fighting to understand policing’s past.”
You can read the full article “What the loss of the New York police museum means for criminal-justice reform” here.
First Post at the Gotham History Blog
Ending 2018 with a short post for the Gotham Center for New York City History. The article is a short exploration of how World War I shifted the shape of American men and society and militarized the New York City Police Department.
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/world-war-i-preparedness-and-the-militarization-of-the-nypd
Short Historiography of 2018 Carceral Studies/Policing History
The editors at The Metropole, the blog of the Urban History Association, asked if I would write a blog post that traced recent developments in the field of policing and carceral history as a 2018 wrap up. This is part of Disciplining the City, the ongoing series I edit for The Metropole on the history of urban policing, incarceration, and state power.
https://themetropole.blog/2018/12/12/reflections-on-discipling-the-city/
Article in the Fall 2018 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History
My article, Wrench in the Deportation Machine: Louis F. Post's Objection to Mechanized Red Scare Bureaucracy appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History.
If you have JSTOR access you can read the article hear: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.1.0062?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents