Upcoming Presentations
Panelist. “The Politics of Sex, Drugs, and Guns since the 1960s: Rethinking the Political History of the Carceral State,” Remaking American Political History Conference, Purdue University, June 6-7
Roundtable. “Historicizing Policing in Postwar America: The Perils, the Possibilities, and the Politics,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 3-5
Invited Talks
“Policing Los Angeles,” Clark Davis Memorial Lecture, Los Angeles History and Metro Studies Group, May 3, 2019
“Policing and the Black Community,” League of Women Voters – Muncie, Indiana, April 20, 2019
“Liberal Law and Order: Policing and Urban Governance,” Middletown Studies Center, Ball State University, March 13, 2019
“Policing Race in Los Angeles,” Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, April 15, 2019
“Kid Thugs are Spreading Terror Through the Streets”: Policing, Schools, and the Criminalization of Black Youth in Los Angeles,” University of Utah, Department of Education, Culture, and Society, March 5, 2019
“The Police Power and Anti-Police Abuse Activism from Watts to Rodney King,” Indiana University, February 27, 2019
“Policing, Race, and Resistance,” DePauw University, October 29, 2018
“Policing Los Angeles and Race in Contemporary America,” Rend Lake College, September 26, 2018
“Policing the Internal Border: Enforcing Order and the Criminalization of Immigrants in Los Angeles,” Newberry Seminar in Borderlands and Latino/a Studies, October 20, 2017
“The Nimble Surveillance State,” The Ohio State University History Workshop, June 14, 2017
“Battle for the Streets: Police and Power in Los Angeles,” IUPUI American Studies Department, March, 30, 2017
“Policing and Justice in Los Angeles,” IUPUI American Studies Department, November 8, 2016
Papers Presented
Panelist. “DARE to Say No: Policing, Schools, and Anti-Drug Education in Crack Era Los Angeles,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 8-11, 2018
Roundtable. “New Directions in the History of Police and Cities,” Urban History Association Biennial Meeting, Columbia, SC, October 20, 2018
Roundtable. "Genealogies of Black Lives Matter," Association for the Study of African American Life and History Anneal Meeting, Indianapolis, October 3-7, 2018
Roundtable. “Law, Resistance, and the Forms of Prison History: Roundtable on Rethinking the American Prison Movement,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, April 12, 2018
Panelist. “Preventing Future Misconduct: The Public Disorder Intelligence Division, Surveillance, and the Containment of Anti-Police Abuse Movements in 1970s Los Angeles,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 4-7, 2018
Panelist. “Policing the Internal Border: Social Control and the Criminalization of Immigrants in Los Angeles,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 9-12, 2017
Panelist. “The City in Crisis: The LAPD, Mass Criminalization, and the Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion,” The Nineties in Historical Perspective Conference, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, March 2-3, 2017
Panelist. “A Free-Fire Attitude: Guns and Police Violence in Late-Twentieth Century Los Angeles,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Denver, January 5-8, 2017
Panelist. “Law and Order in the City of Angels: The LAPD and the Politics of Police Reform in Los Angeles after Watts,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 17-20, 2016
Roundtable and Panelist. “Post-Industrial Violence in the City of Angels,” Eighth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Chicago, October 13-16, 2016
Panelist. “Liberal Law and Order: Tom Bradley, the LAPD, and the Politics of Police Reform in Los Angeles,” Eighth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Chicago, October 13-16, 2016
Panelist. “Taking Back the Streets: Mayor Bradley, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the War on Drugs during the 1980s,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 9, 2016
Panelist. “Preventing Crime with Surveillance: The Public Disorder Intelligence Division, Subversive Behavior, and the Struggle Over Police Spying in Los Angeles during the 1970s,”Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 15, 2015
Panelist.“You can’t put them all in jail’: Criminalizing Behavior by Waging the War on Drugs as a War on Gangs in Crack Era Los Angeles,” U.S. Intellectual History Conference, Washington, D.C., October 18, 2015
Panelist. “‘Police Discipline, Is it JUSTICE’: Excessive Force, the Coalition Against Police Abuse, and the Battleground of the Crime War in Los Angeles during the 1970s,” Fourth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Monmouth University, April 16-18, 2015
Panelist. “‘Kid thugs are spreading terror through the streets’: Juvenile Delinquency and the War on Crime in Los Angeles, 1968-1975,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 6, 2014
Panelist. “Reasserting Authority in the Streets: Law and Order and the Militarization of the Los Angeles Police Department,” Urban History Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 11, 2014
Panelist. “The Sacredness of Alameda Street: Reflections on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Project,” Society of California Archivists Palm Springs, CA, May 9, 2014
Panelist. “The Score on the Killing Ground: Law and Order, the Militarization of the LAPD, and the Punitive Side of Urban Liberalism in Los Angeles, 1965-1975,” LA History & Metro Studies Group, Dual Paper Session, February 28, 2014
Panelist. “Race, Control, and Resistance: Community Empowerment and the Struggle Against Police Repression in late-Twentieth Century Los Angeles,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,January 3, 2014
Panelist. “Policing the Inner City: The Los Angeles Police Department, the War on Drugs, and the Criminalization of Urban Space during the 1980s,” Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 21-24, 2013
Panelist. “‘A Pledge Is Not Self-Enforcing’: Struggles for Equal Employment Opportunity in Multiracial Los Angeles, 1964–1982,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, August 8-10, 2013
Panelist. “Race, Riots, and Community Empowerment in Los Angeles: State and Social Movement Responses to Urban Unrest from Watts to Rodney King,” The American Racial State in the Long Twentieth Century Conference, University of Michigan, May 10-11, 2013
Panelist. “Challenging Containment: Social Movements and the Surveillance State in Los Angeles, 1970-1990,” Crossing Borders: Politics, Cultural Contest and the Urgency of Space Conference, University of Southern California, March 29-30, 2013
Panelist. “Race, Control, and Resistance: Community Empowerment and the Struggle Against Police Repression in late-Twentieth Century Los Angeles,” The 4thWorld Conference on Remedies to Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota,October 11, 2012
Panelist. “Fighting the Segregation Amendment: Black and Mexican American Responses to Proposition 14 in Los Angeles,” New Perspectives on African American History and Culture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 27-28, 2009
Discussant/Commentator
Comment. “Protective Custody”: Lived Experiences of Mass Incarceration in the United States, 1950-1990,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2019
“Author Meets Critic: Dan Berger’s Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 12, 2015
Conference Panels Organized
“Just Say No: Intellectualism and Anti-Intellectualism in America’s War on Drugs,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 8-11, 2018
“New Directions in the History of Police and Cities,” Urban History Association Biennial Meeting, Columbia, SC, October 20, 2018
“Police, Guns, and Crime: Violence in American Cities from the 1960s to the 1990s,” Urban History Association Conference, Chicago, October 13-16, 2016
Chris Agee's “The Streets of San Francisco” (Book session), Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 12-15, 2015
Dan Berger's "Captive Nation" (Book session), Social Science History Association, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 12-15, 2015
“Getting Tough: Police Power after World War II,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 12-15, 2015
“Drugs, Jails, and Juvenile Justice: Communities and the State at the Dawn of Mass Incarceration,” Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 6-9, 2014
“From Riots to Reagan: ‘Get-Tough’ and Community Policing in the City,” Urban History Association Conference, Philadelphia, October 9-12, 2014
“Policy Innovation and Conflict in Metropolitan Los Angeles Since the 1970s,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 21-24, 2013