"Making the Liberal Media: Journalism’s Class Transformation since the 1960s" 

 

Mastery and Drift Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s

 

Edited by Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer

(2025)

Yuppies: Young Urban Professionals and the Making of Postindustrial New York

 

Krooss Prize Dissertation Summary

 

Enterprise & Society 

(2021)

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Review of Andrew Diamond and Thomas Sugrue, eds., Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar America

Journal of American History (2021)

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Hoboken is Burning:

Yuppies, Arson, and Displacement

in the Postindustrial City

 

Journal of American History (2019)

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How gentrification caused America’s cities to burn

 

The Washington Post

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A Conversation on Gentrification, Arson, and Displacement

 

Process: A Blog for American History 

(2020)

Review of Leandra Ruth Zarnow, Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug 

 

Gotham Blog for NYC History 

(2020)

Rat Race:

Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?

 

Public Seminar 

(2018)

Review of Brian Goldstein,

The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem

 

Planning Perspectives 

(2018)

  

Review of Aaron Cowan, 

A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt 

 

  

Ohio Valley History 

(2017)

“Dirty, Authentic…Delicious”:

Yelp, Mexican Restaurants, and the

Appetites of Philadelphia’s New Middle Class

 

  

Gastronomica: 
The Journal of Critical Food Studies 

(2015)

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“Closer to Heaven”: Race and Diversity in Suburban America

 

Journal of Urban History 

(2013)

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Sixth Avenue Heartache:

Race, Commemoration, and the Colorblind Consensus in Zephyrhills, Florida, 2003–2004

 

  

Journal of Urban History 

(2013)

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Gentrification

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Streetcar Suburbs

 

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

South Street

 

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

 

 

 

Review of Victoria W. Wollcott, 

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America

 

Journal of American Culture 

(2013)

 

 

 

Exhibition review of American Spirits:

The Rise and Fall of Prohibition,

National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA

 

​Journal of American History (2013)  

Review of Gregory L. Heller.

Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia

 

​H-Urban 

(2013)