RESEARCH AREAS: Social Movements; Youth Leadership; Community Organizing; Twentieth Century US history; Peace & Conflict studies. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. "Music and organizing in SNCC,” in Music in the Movements of the 1960s,ed. Patrick Jones, Johns Hopkins Press, forthcoming Fall 2012. "Blindsided by The Help," First of the Month, Sept. 2011. "Freedom Now: Nonviolence in the Southern Freedom Movement, 1960–1964," and "Telling Freedom Stories from the Inside Out: Internal Politics and Movement Cultures in sncc and the Black Panther Party," with Robyn Spencer, in Emilye Crosby, ed., Civil Rights History from the Ground Up (Georgia, 2011). "Quiet Work at Great Risk: The Grassroots Legacy," roundtable on Obama and the 1960s, The 1960s: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, Spring 2009. "Freedom Economics,” in Reviews in American History, Dec. 2007. Review of Winifred Breines, The Trouble Between Us: an Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, North Carolina Historical Review, July 2007. "1+1: Children Challenge 'Sharecropper Education' in Baltimore," with Dirk Philipsen, First of the Month (Fall 2006). "Out of Time," with Dirk Philipsen, First of the Month (November 2004). "The Politics of Patience," First of the Month (July 2003). “How democracy Travels: SNCC Teaches Swarthmore Students,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography (July 2002). “Cincinnati: Race in the Closed City,” Social Policy 32:2 (Winter 2001/2002).