Faculty and Staff

Books:

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War (Syracuse University Press, 2021), Latifeh Yarshater Book Award Honorable Mention by Association for Iranian Studies and Persian Heritage Foundation

"The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani" (Syracuse University Press, 2015), Best First Book Award 2016 by the National History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta.

Articles:

“Akhund Khurasani: A Historical Model for Iranian Constitutionalism,” Digest of Middle East Studies (forthcoming)

“Gum shudih-yi dar safihati tarikh,” Sharq, (2012); a Persian language journal published in Iran

“Interregional Rivalry Cloaked in Iraqi Arab Nationalism and Iranian Secular Nationalism and Shi‘ite Ideology,” International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (2009)

“Shi‘i Ideology, Iranian Secular Nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88),” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (2007)

“Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the Migration of Iranian Youth to California,” Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West (2005)

Book:

“Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Winner of 2018 Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society

Honorable Mention in 2019 Jon Gjerde Prize competition, Midwest History Association

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

“Blood on the Tracks: Accidental Death and the Built Environment,” in City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History, eds. William C. Barnett, Kathleen A. Brosnan, and Ann Durkin Keating (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).

“Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964-2007,” (co-authored with Sarah Rose) LABOR: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 11 (Spring 2014): 47-75.

Winner of 2016 biennial “Best Article Prize,” Labor and Working Class History Association

“The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor: Spatial and Environmental Dimensions of Industrial Capitalism, 1881-1909,” Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History 13 (June 2012): 235-275.

“The Lakefront’s Last Frontier: The Turnerian Mythology of Streeterville, 1886-1961,” The Journal of Illinois History 9 (Fall 2006): 201-214.

"A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2021." https://uncpress.org/book/9781469664781/a-nation-of-descendants/

"'My Furthest-Back Person': Roots and the History of Black Genealogy.”  In Reconsidering Roots: ­Race, Politics, and Memory, edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson, 63-79.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.

“A Noble Pursuit?: Bourgeois America’s Uses of Lineage.” In The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, eds. Sven Beckert and Julia Rosenbaum, 135-152. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

“Lineage as Capital: Genealogy in Antebellum New England.” New England Quarterly 83, no. 1 (June 2010): 250-282.

Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

“‘Moral Madness’: Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German History,” in Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, and Culture, ed., Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels (under contract with Camden House, 2022).

“Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion,” in Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, edited by Beth Plummer and Joel Harrington. Berghahn Publishers (Oxford, UK), May 2019.

Book:

"The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico" (University of New Mexico Press, 2016.)

Winner of:

• Michael C. Meyer Prize for Best Book on Mexican History in a Five-Year Period, 2017
• Alfred B. Thomas Award 2016, Honorable Mention
• Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2017 Book Prize, Honorable Mention

Threads of Empire: Loyalty and Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552-1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).

" Emperor Gaozong and the Rise of Wu Zetian," Tang Studies 30: 2012, 45-69.

Kingship in Early Medieval China, Brill Press, 2008.

Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-Century America (Co-edited with David K. Wiggins) Routledge, 2004.

The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport, (with David K Wiggins), University of Illinois Press, 2003. Runner-up for the 2003 Book Prize awarded by the North American Society for Sport History.

The Sporting World of the Modern South (Edited), University of Illinois Press, 2002.

The Civil Rights Movement Revisited: Critical Perspectives on the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States (Co-edited with Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche and Therese Frey Steffen), LIT Verlag (Hamburg and Münster, Germany and London, UK; Transaction Press, USA, 2001).

(The Playing Fields of American Culture: Athletics and Higher Education, 1850 1945, under contract with Oxford University Press)

“Holding Center Stage: Race Pride and the Extracurriculum at Historically Black Colleges and Universities during the First Half of the Twentieth Century” in Susan Ditto, David Libby, and Paul Spickard, eds., Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion (University of Mississippi Press, 2005)

“Muscular Assimilationism: Sport and the Paradoxes of Racial Reform,” in Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality On and Off the Field, Charles K. Ross, ed. (University of Mississippi Press, 2004).

“Sport as ‘Interracial Education’: Popular Culture and Civil Rights Strategies in the 1930s and Beyond,” in The Civil Rights Movement Revisited; and as "Before Jackie Robinson: Sport and the Civil Rights Campaign of the 1930s," in Sport and Politics: Proceedings of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, ISHPES, Budapest, 2002.

“Slouching Toward a New Expediency: College Football and the Color Line during the Great Depression,” American Studies, 40 (Fall 1999)

“The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement,” Journal of Sport History, 25 (Spring 1998), reprinted (abridged) in We Are A People: Narrative and Multiplicity in the Construction of Ethnic Identity, Paul R. Spickard and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, eds. (Temple University Press, 2000); reprinted in Sport and the Color Line; reprinted in David Karen and Robert E. Washington, eds, The Sport and Society Reader (Routledge 2010).

“The Manly, the Moral, and the Proficient: College Sport in the New South,” Journal of Sport History, 24 (Fall 1997); reprinted in The Sporting World of the Modern South

“To ‘Bring the Race Along Rapidly’: Sport, Student Culture, and Educational Mission at Historically Black Colleges during the Interwar Years,” History of Education Quarterly, 35 (Summer 1995); reprinted in The Sporting World of the Modern South