丁香园AV

Biography & Research Interests

I'm a White settler, born in Regina, Saskatchewan on the land of the Blackfoot/Niits铆tapi, M茅tis, and Sioux. My research interests in U.S. history are twentieth-century African American, policy, and urban history. I've published two books on these subjects. The first is Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta, which considers elite African American reformers and their efforts to use the new federal welfare programs of the Great Depression and World War II to improve the lot of Atlanta鈥檚 Black community against all odds in the Jim Crow era. The second, Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism, is a study of race, power, and politics, examining how the White policy establishment sought to engage and shape Black-power activism in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s.

            Currently, I鈥檓 engaged in a new research project with my History Department colleague, Luke Clossey, on the spread of Theravadin Buddhist monasticism along the West Coast of North America since the 1980s, among both recent migrants from Southeast Asia and 鈥渃onvert鈥� Buddhists.  Through this case, we鈥檙e examining the far-reaching cultural consequences in the region of a converging global middle class of highly skilled and educated Asian migrants and their counterparts in a largely White, so-called 鈥渃reative鈥� class.

鈥淏irken Buddhist Forest Monastery: Asian Migration, the Creative Class, and Cultural Transformation in the New Pacific British Columbia,鈥� (forthcoming, BC Studies, Winter 2021).

Books

Commentary

• 鈥�, HistPhil (History of Philanthropy blog), eds. Benjamin Soskis, Maribel Morey, Stanley Katz. 3 February 2020.
• 鈥�,鈥� Jacobin, 26 November 2019.
• 鈥�,鈥� Jacobin, 19 September, 2019.
• 鈥�,鈥� S-USIH (Society for US Intellectual History) Blog, 1 February 2018.
• "," invited entry for HistPhil (History of Philanthropy blog), eds. Benjamin Soskis, Maribel Morey, Stanley Katz. 3 August 2015.

Recorded Lectures

• "," Talk presented with Luke Clossey for the David Lam Centre, 丁香园AV, 3 October 2019.
• 鈥溾�� Talk  Presented in the 丁香园AV History Department鈥檚 public lecture series 鈥淗eroes and Villains of History,鈥� February 2014.

Areas of Graduate Supervision

Twentieth-Century Urban History, Post-Emancipation African American History, History of Post-Reconstruction American Public Policy, History of Race in the United States.

Accepting new graduate students: no

Awards