Jocelyn Wills
Professor
History
Location: 1127c Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2812
Fax: 718.951.4504
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Jocelyn Wills zig-zagged her way to New York from Vancouver, British Columbia, via Texas, Minnesota, and the many dotted roads that connect the contiguous United States with Canada and Mexico. Along the way, she encountered both dazzling diversity and disturbing disparities. These realities inform all of her research and teaching interests. Her most recent book, Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State (2017), lifts the veil on a corporate world girded by powerful forces at the nexus of state, capital, and geopolitical power games, revealing the ways in which the neoliberal project turned satellites into a multi-billion-dollar commodity and outer space into a competitive, militarized zone. Her current research/book projects focus on American boom-and-bust and the everyday experiences of workers, consumers, and small-business operators in post-Civil War Brooklyn.
Education:
Ph.D., Texas A&M University - 1998 (History)
B.A., University of British Columbia, Vancouver - 1989 (History)
Areas of Expertise:
An economic, social, and urban historian, Wills specializes in the history of capitalism; surveillance studies; technological innovation and historical amnesia; American dreams and realities; micro-histories of everyday life; and Brooklyn in the world. Deeply committed to education rooted in place and civic engagement, Wills often takes her classes to the streets, to tour neighborhoods, visit sites of history making and memory, and undertake research connecting the local to the global.
Books and Publications
"Teaching in a Time of Covid-19," Radical Teacher 124 (December 2022). Co-edited with Neil Meyer, and introduced as "Other Worlds and Educations Are Possible: Lessons from Teaching and Learning During Covid-19" (1-5; "https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/1114/803) (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2022
"Teaching about Capitalism, War, and Empire," Radical Teacher 117 (Summer 2020). Co-edited with Joseph Entin and Richard Ohmann, and introduced as "'Resist, Rethink, and Restructure': Teaching about Capitalism, War, and Empire in a Time of Covid-19" (1-11; https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/792/679). (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2020
Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State. Montreal, PQ: McGill-Queen's University Press (https://www.mqup.ca/tug-of-war-products-9780773550476.php). (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2017
"Satellite Surveillance and Outer Space Capitalism: The Case of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates," in Peter Dickens and James Ormrod, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), 94-122. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
"Innovation in a Cold [War] Climate: Engineering Peace With the American Military-Industrial Complex." Enterprise and Society 12, no. 1 (March 2011): 120-74. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2005
"Respectable Mediocrity: The Everyday Life of an Ordinary American Striver, 1876-1890," Journal of Social History 37, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 323-49. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2003
"Divided Loyalties: Private Ambition, Nation-Building, and the Railroad Racket Along the Northwestern Borderlands, 1877-1883," Journal of the West 39, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 8-16. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2000
"Business Enterprise and the Construction of American Community Life in the Northwest: St. Paul, Minnesota, 1849-1862," Essays in Economic and Business History 15 (1997): 135-53. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1997
Creative Work
Wills, Jocelyn, with Samantha Howland, Franck Schuurmans, Franklin Shen and Katrinka Smith Sloan. "The Long and Winding Road": Histories of Aging and Aging Services in America, 2006-2016. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. 2007
Wills, Jocelyn, with Roch Parayre. How Blue Is Your Ocean? Value Innovation and Credit Union Strategy Development. Madison, WI: Filene Research Institute. 2006
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Tow Professorship, from The Tow Foundation, 2019-present. (Grants and Fellowships) 2022
PSC Research Award, for "Confessions of a Part-Time Striver"; and "Upward, Downward, and Lateral Mobility in Brooklyn, 1865-1930," 2019-21. (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
City University of New York Office of Research Book Completion Award, for Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017). (Awards and Honors) 2017
PSC-CUNY Research Award, for "Cultural Histories of Capitalism and Self-Making Research," 2012-2013. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Mrs. Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute Research Fellowship, 2006-07. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
PSC-CUNY Research Awards, for "American Dream & Reality Research," 2000-04. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, 2002-03. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003
Minnesota Historical Society Research Grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 2001
James J. Hill Reference Library Research Grant, 1996-97. (Grants and Fellowships) 1997
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship, 1993-97. (Grants and Fellowships) 1997
Research Activities
"Brooklyn College Student Experiences, Activism, and Post-Graduation Lives," a collaborative oral history/archival project, 2021-present. 2022
Book manuscript in progress: "A Dreadful Panic": the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre Fire and Its Aftermath 2022
Book manuscript in progress: Lilacs for Leila; and Other Confessions of a Part-time Striver. 2022
Research in progress: "Upward, Downward, and Lateral Mobility in Everyday Brooklyn, 1865-1930." 2022
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Teaching the Teacher: Learning Intersectional Strategies from Working-Class Students and Other Members of the Global Precariat," 16th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London, UK. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
"'Stealth Takeover': Military Contractors and the Erasure of Surveillance Borders," 8th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network/Surveillance & Society Conference, Aarhus, Denmark. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Capitalist Expansion, Government Contractors, and the Synergies between State and Commercial Surveillance Systems," Seeing Like a Capitalist: Histories of Commercial Surveillance in America, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Engineering the Eight-Day Week: Revisiting High-Tech's Sweat-Equity Formula in an Era of Increasing Income Inequality," 64th Annual Business History Conference, Baltimore, MD. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Chair and Commentator, "Creating Pink Labor in the Late-19th and 20th-Century US," 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexuality, Hemstead, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"Surveillance Capitalism and the Continental Integration of Satellite Technologies and the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex," 19th Annual Conference of the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, Toronto, Ontario. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Chair and Commentator, "Inequalities: Equity Issues in the Workplace," 61st Annual Business History Conference, Miami, FL. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Commentator, "Immigrant Women at the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace," 129th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Satellite Surveillance and Outer Space Capitalism," 11th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London, UK. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Struggling Upward Without Luke Larkin's Luck," Brooklyn College Historical Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"The 'Proper Meshing': Geopolitics and the Commercialization of Space," 60th Annual Business History Conference, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"The Long History of Casino Capitalism and the Struggle to Organize Service Workers in the Gaming Industry," Labor and Working-Class History Association Annual Conference, New York City, 2013. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Researching the Local: Case Studies in Brooklyn History," Researching New York: Perspectives on Empire State History, Albany, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"New Perspectives on American Immigration: Failure Studies," Professional Staff Congress Retirees Chapter, New York, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Tragedy & Poverty: Making Ends Meet in the Wake of the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre Fire," Brooklyn College Historical Society. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Commentator, "Fortune-Seeking in the Farthest West, 1784-1865," 96th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Chair, "Narrative, Rhetoric, and Business History," 57th Annual Business History Conference, St. Louis, MO. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Neither for Love Nor for Money," 35th Annual Economic and Business Historical Society Conference, Braga, Portugal. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"The Gilded-Age 'Smash Up': Love‑Hate Relationships, Financial Entanglements, and Small Business Failure in Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn," 94th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American of Historians, Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"'By June the Affair Was a Hopeless Tangle'; and Other Tales in the Failure of Personal and Business Relationships," 55th Annual Business History Conference, Milan, Italy. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"'This Way to the Promised Land': Space Exploration, Engineering Apostles, and the Seduction of Global Surveillance," Surveillance Societies: What Price Security?, New York, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"'Lilacs for Leila'; and Other Confessions of a Part-time Striver," 11th Annual Faculty Day Conference, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Struggling Upward Without Luke Larkin's Luck: Re-Examining Mobility in 19th-Century Brooklyn," Imaging Brooklyn Conference, Brooklyn, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Wills, Jocelyn, with Susan Yohn and Marci Reaven, "Recovering Ordinary New York in the Digital Age: Social Historians in the Archives," Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"'Holding Their Own' & 'Making a Living': White-Collar Strivers Turned Petite-Storefront Operators in Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn, New York," 31st Annual Economic and Business Historical Society Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Entering the Historical Profession in the 21st Century," Series of lectures for graduate students, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Windows of Opportunity: Storefront Businesses in Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn," Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Exporting Exhaustion: Eco-Tourism, Work-Weary Travelers, and the Historical Calculus of Transnational Encounters," 8th Annual Faculty Day Conference, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Money Makes the World Go Round, the World Go Round, the World Go Round: Globalization, Social History, and the Resuscitation of Economic Linkages," Journal of Social History's The Future of Social History Conference, Fairfax, VA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Networking From the Inside-Out: Socializing With 'The Boys' From the Office," 50th Annual Business History Conference, Le Creusot, France. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"'Pushing, Go-Ahead' New Yorkers: Researching White-Collar Strivers in Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn," 5th Annual Researching New York Conference, Albany, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"John MacDonald Had a Firm: Creative Genius, Business Survival, and the Incubation of Vancouver's High-Technology Community," 28th Annual Economic and Business Historical Society Conference, Memphis, TN. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Lower-Middle-Class Strivers and the Boundaries of Business and Gender Success in the Gilded Age West," 25th Annual Economic and Business Historical Society Conference, San Diego, CA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
"Mapping the Industrial Revolution," National Science Foundation Quantitative Reasoning Project Panel, Core Studies Sampler Conference, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
"The 'Spending Mentality': Wage-Working Consumers in the United States and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism, 1870-1930," 3rd Annual Faculty Day Conference, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
"The Politics of Nineteenth-Century Entrepreneurship and Western Development," Columbia University Seminar in Political and Intellectual Institutions and Thought, New York, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
"Entrepreneurial Success and the Quest for Graft and Glory: James J. Hill v. William D. Washburn," 24th Annual Economic and Business Historical Society Conference, San Antonio, TX. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999
"The Cultural Divide: Railroad Developments in the United States and Canada," 43rd Annual Business History Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1997
Professional Leadership
Chairperson, Faculty Council Committee on Student Advisement, Brooklyn College, 2021-Fall 2022. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
CUNY-Wide Contract Enforcement Officer, Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), 2020-2022. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2022
Delegate, Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), 2011-22. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Deputy Chairperson and Undergraduate Adviser, History Department, Brooklyn College, Fall 2022. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Director, American Studies Program, Brooklyn College, 2020-2022. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2022
External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion cases, 2005-present. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2022
Member, American Studies Curriculum Committee, Brooklyn College, 2007-2022. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, Committee on Personnel and Budget, History Department, Brooklyn College, 2016-2022. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, Committee on Personnel and Budget, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department, Fall 2022. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, Executive Committee, Brooklyn College Chapter, Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), 2008-2022. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, History Department Curriculum Committee, Brooklyn College, 2020-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, Steering and Curriculum Committee, Women's & Gender Studies Program, Brooklyn College, 2015-2022. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, Steering Committee, Brooklyn College Covid-19 Archive @Journal of the Plague Year, 2020-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, Policy Council, Brooklyn College, 2017-20. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
Chairperson, History Department Curriculum Committee, Brooklyn College, 2016-19. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Contract Enforcement Officer/Grievance Counselor, Brooklyn College Chapter, Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), 2014-19. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
Chairperson, Faculty Council Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2017-18. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Social Sciences Division Representative-At-Large, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College, 2015-18. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Chairperson, Faculty Council Committee on Campus Planning and Security, Brooklyn College, 2016-17. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
History Department Representative, Brooklyn College Chapter, Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), 2008-17. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Member, Selection and Planning Committees, Wolfe Institute Hess Scholar Program, 2015-17. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Member, Faculty Council Committee on Course and Standing, 2015-6. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Graduate Center for Worker Education, 2014-15. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dean's Ad Hoc Committee on Strategic Planning, 2014-5. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Chairperson, History Department Committee on Scholarships and Awards, Brooklyn College, 2007-11, and 2013-14. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Social Sciences Division Representative-at-Large, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College, 2009-12. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Trustee, Business History Conference, 2009-12. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012
Member, Faculty Council Committee on Master Planning, Educational Policy, and Budget, Brooklyn College, 2009-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Member, Hagley Book Prize Committee, Business History Conference, 2009-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Member, Program Planning Committee, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 2010-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Board Member, Roberta Matthews Center for Teaching, Brooklyn College, 2007-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Brooklyn College Delegate, Faculty Senate, City University of New York. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Chairperson, History Department Curriculum Committee, Brooklyn College, 2007-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Brooklyn College Planning Committee, White House Project, 2009-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Policy Council, Brooklyn College, 2009-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Provost's Task Force on City-Based and Sustainability Education, Brooklyn College, 2009-10. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Chair, Kerr Prize Committee, Business History Conference, 2008-09. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Chairperson, Faculty Council Committee on Course and Standing, Brooklyn College, 2007-09. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Activities included leading a tour to the African Burial Ground National Monument and writing "Of Monuments and Memories: New York City's Burial Sites and Cemeteries," AHA Supplement to the 123rd Annual Meeting, 2008-09 (reprinted in the AHA Almanac for the 129th Annual Meeting, 2015). (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Member, Kerr Prize Committee, Business History Conference, 2007-08. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008
Member, History Department Search Committee, Brooklyn College, 2006-07. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007
Chairperson, Director of Academic Advising Search Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006
Chairperson, Faculty Council Committee on Graduate Admissions and Standards, Brooklyn College, 2005-06. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006
Chairperson, Social Sciences Division Tenure Subcommittee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006
Member, Curriculum Committee, History Department, Brooklyn College, 2003-06. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006
Graduate Deputy and Graduate Student Adviser, History Department, Brooklyn College, 2003-05. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005
Member, Faculty Council Committee on Graduate Admissions and Standards, Brooklyn College, 2004-05. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005
Member, Honors College Interdisiplinary Course Selection Committee, Brooklyn College, 2004-05. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005
Member, Policy Council, Brooklyn College, 2003-05. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005
Member, Social Sciences Division Promotion to Associate Subcommittee, Brooklyn College, 2004-2005. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005
Brooklyn College Delegate, Faculty Senate, City University of New York, 2003-04. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004
Chairperson, Faculty Council Committee on Course and Standing, Brooklyn College, 2002-04. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004
History Department Delegate, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College, 2003-04. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004
Member, Core Curriculum Task Force, Brooklyn College, 2003-04. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004
Member, Faculty Day Teaching Excellence Award Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004
Member, History Department Committee on Scholarships and Awards, Brooklyn College, 2003-04. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004
Social Sciences Division Representative-At-Large, Faculty Council, Brooklyn College, 2000-03. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2003
Chairperson, Faculty Council Committee on Course and Standing, Brooklyn College, 2001-02. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2002
Deputy Chairperson and Undergraduate Adviser, History Department, Brooklyn College, 2000-02. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2002
Member, Committee on Outcomes Assessment, History Department, Brooklyn College, 2001-02. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2002
Member, Provost's Retention Task Force Committee, Brooklyn College, 2001-02. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2002
Member, Writing Across the Curriculum, Brooklyn College, 2001-02. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2002
Chairperson, Search Committee, History Department, Brooklyn College, 2000-01. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2001
History Department Representative, National Science Foundation Quantitative Reasoning Project, Brooklyn College, 2000-01. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2001
Member, Curriculum Committee, History Department, Brooklyn College, 1999-2001. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2001
Member, Faculty Council Committee on Course and Standing, Brooklyn College, 2000-01. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2001
Pedagogical Achievements
Fellow, City-Based Education, Provost's Task Force for City-Based and Sustainability Education, Brooklyn College, 2009-10. 2010
Place-Based Education Fellow, Employing the Borough of Brooklyn as a Community Partner in Research, Teaching, and Internship Opportunities at Brooklyn College, Spring Semester. 2009
Teaching American History at Brooklyn College and Throughout the Borough: Organized and participated in a four-day Teaching American History Summer Institute that included employing the Brooklyn Historical Society, Old Stone House, Lott House, Wyckoff House, and Brooklyn's colonial-era cemeteries as sites for researching, teaching, and understanding American history. 2009
Teaching American History at Brooklyn College and Throughout the Borough: Organized and participated in a four-day Teaching American History Summer Institute that included employing Green-Wood Cemetery, the Brooklyn Historical Society, Weeksville, and the architectural and historical landmarks of downtown Brooklyn as sites for researching, teaching, and understanding American social history. 2008
Community Activities
"Saloons and Shopkeepers." Volunteer tour guide, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Brooklyn, NY. 2013
"What Lies Beneath: Secrets of Nineteenth-Century Brooklynites." Volunteer trolley tour guide, Green-Wood Historic Fund, Brooklyn, NY. 2010
Board Member, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Brooklyn, NY. 2009
Other Professional Activities
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Labor and Society (formerly Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society), 2014-present. 2022
Editorial Board Member, Radical Teacher, 2021-present. 2022
Faculty Mentor, Immigrant Student Success Office, Brooklyn College, 2020-present. 2022
Over the past 23 years, I have reviewed book manuscripts for various presses, as well as manuscript submissions for scholarly journals, including the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Social History: Societies and Culture, Enterprise and Society, Radical Teacher, and Business History Review. I have also published book reviews in the above-mentioned journals as well as in Pacific Historical Review, Gulf South Historical Review, Minnesota History, Gotham Center for New York City History, and The American Review of Canadian Studies. 2022
Scenario planning and historical consultant, Decision Strategies International, 2005-2011. 2011
