About

A native of Southern California, I did a stint in the Navy after high school and eventually completed my Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown University. I wrote my doctoral dissertation under the supervision of urban historians Elliott Gorn and Robert Self, urban sociologist John Logan, and urban planning expert Larry Bennett. I currently teach history at Long Beach City College. Before that, I taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research interests include the history of the sports business, the growth (and decline) of U.S. cities after World War II, and economic inequality in general. The University of Chicago press published my first book, Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality, in 2018. I spend most of my spare time playing in the ocean, reading, and feeding Long Beach’s hummingbirds. My favorite writers include Barbara Ehrenreich, Ha Jin, Adolph Reed, Jr., and Gore Vidal.