Biographical Note
I was involved in student government and student activism in college, and I found my way into the study of history through that work. As the editor of a campus newspaper I wrote a short biographical piece about a local civil rights activist who was assassinated in Alabama in 1963, and while serving as national secretary of the United States Student Association I rewrote that group's internal organizational history. I enrolled in graduate school because I wanted to learn how to write such stories properly, and it was only after I got there that I discovered my love of teaching.
Today I live in New York City, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and teach at the City University of New York.