Investigative Journalist & Professor
Associa
te Professor of Sociology
te Professor of SociologyFordham University
441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Urban Studies, Labor History, American Political Development, Race and Ethnicity
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California – Berkeley, 1998
M.A., Sociology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1988
B.A. Sociology, Brandeis University, 1983
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fordham University, Yale University, Michigan State University, University of California – Berkeley
BOOKS
The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
- Winner, 2013 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Labor and Labor Movements Section, American Sociological Association.
- Selected, “Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 2012,” Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University.
No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 (hardcover), 2007 (paperback).- Winner, 2006 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.
- Finalist, 2005 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
NWU is the sole provider of IFJ Press Passes to freelance journalists in the U.S.