Monthly Archives: March 2015

My debut article for the Guardian is on the 77-year-old St. Louis crime tabloid the St. Louis Evening Whirl: “Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. That’s how three street goons came at a dude as he said goodbye to his lovely … Continue reading →

My latest for the Chronicle of Higher Education is on the post-PhD library access lockout: The hardest thing about doing the revisions for my final scholarly article was not the research, or the writing, but obtaining access to basic materials. … Continue reading →

Yesterday I gave the keynote speech at the 22nd conference of the  Association of Central Eurasian Students at Indiana University. I am an alumnus of the Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) program at IU so it was exciting to get to … Continue reading →

My latest for the Chronicle of Higher Education is on institutional bias, which has come, in academia, to function something like inherited wealth: What that means is something every Ph.D. from a less-prestigious institution knows all too well: No amount … Continue reading →

Months of research and interviews went into my latest for Politico Magazine, which is on the sustainability of the Ferguson protest movement, the participants of which are struggling to survive: Ferguson began as a movement led by the people who had … Continue reading →

For Quartz, I wrote about calls to boycott Cleveland to protest their stance on the death of Tamir Rice: To boycott an entire city—particularly a rust belt city like St. Louis or Cleveland with a majority black population—is to strike … Continue reading →