Conference Participation and Invited Talks
October 2017: "Urban Planning and the Search for Social Justice in the Mission District, San Francisco." Seventeenth National Conference on Planning History, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
6/17/2017: Paper Presentation, "Political Activism and Gentrification in San Francisco, 1970-2015." Historians of the Twentieth Century United States, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
6/17/2017: Chair, "Rethinking the Nation of Islam," panel. Historians of the Twentieth Century United States, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
10/20/2016: Paper Presentation, "The Conservative Ascendancy and the 2016 Presidential Election." In "U.S. Elections 2016: Alternative Perspectives" event, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, U.K.
10/15/2016: Chair, "The Postwar State and its City: Federal Policy and Local Communities" panel. Eighth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
10/14/2016: Paper Presentation, "The Making of the Orderly City: New York since the 1990s." Eighth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
6/3/2016: Keynote Address, "African Americans and Spatial Mobility: The Urban Perspective." In Flows and Undercurrents — Dimensions of (Im)mobility in North America, International Graduate Conference, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
11/7/2015: Paper Presentation, "Columbia University and Comprehensive Planning in Upper Manhattan, 1945-1973." Sixteenth National Conference on Planning History, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
7/30/2015: Invited Talk, "Race, Class, and Gentrification in Harlem, 1980-2013." Symposium on Harlem as Place and Symbol since 1900, Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
2/19/2015: Invited Talk, "The Rebuilding of the South Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century." American History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, U.K.
10/11/2014: Commentator and Chair, "Urban Policy and the Origins of Gentrification" panel. Seventh Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
9/7/2014: Chair, "Urban History" panel. Historians of the Twentieth Century United States/British American Nineteenth Century Historians Joint Conference, University of Reading, Reading, U.K.
9/7/2014: Paper Presentation, "Police-Community Relations in Harlem and the Black Freedom Movement, 1945-1973." Historians of the Twentieth Century United States/British American Nineteenth Century Historians Joint Conference, University of Reading, Reading, U.K.
4/10/2014: Commentator, "After the Urban Crisis: New York and the Path to Neoliberalism" panel. Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
10/5/2013: Paper Presentation, "Gentrification and Government Policy in New York City." Fifteenth National Conference on Planning History, Toronto, Canada.
6/14/2013: Paper Presentation, "Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and Urban Politics: The Case of New York City." "American Conservatism: Rethinking the U.S. Right" Conference sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library and the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, U.K.
12/12/2012: Book Presentation, Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance (New York: Routledge, 2011), at the Autumn Research Seminar, School of American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
10/26/2012: Paper presentation, "Robert Moses and the Visual Dimension of Physical Disorder: Efforts to Demonstrate Urban Blight in the Age of Slum Clearance," at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, New York, New York, U.S.A.
2/27/2012: Paper Presentation, "Public Space, Urban Disorder, and the Code of Urban Coexistence in Buenos Aires, Argentina," at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, New York, U.S.A.
11/18/2011: Paper Presentation, "The Politics of Race and Class and the Changing Spatial Fortunes of the McCarren Pool in Brooklyn, NY, 1936-2010," at the Fourteenth National Conference on Planning History, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
10/18/2011: Seminar Presentation, "The Politicization of Municipal Service Delivery: Policing in New York City, 1945-1973," at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
10/4/2011: Commentator, "'Carthage Must Be Destroyed': Health, Housing, and the New Deal," paper by Betty Livingston Adams, at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
9/14/2011: Book Presentation, Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance, (New York: Routledge, 2011). New York Metro Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association, Salon Talk, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York, U.S.A.
11/8/2010: Invited Talk, "Inadequate Sanitation Provision and the Decline of New York City, 1945-1973," at the City Seminar, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
10/21/2010: Paper Presentation, "Urban Decline and the Withdrawal of New York University from University Heights, Bronx," at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
9/30/2010: Chair, "Documenting the City through Film," at the "Shrinking Cities, Smaller Cities: Modern Crisis or New Path to Prosperity? Can Smaller be Better?" International Conference Sponsored by the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
7/3/2010: Paper Presentation, "The Failure of Public Housing as an Ordering Apparatus in New York City," at the Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide and Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
7/2/2010: Roundtable Discussant, "Teaching American Popular Culture," at the Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide and Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
10/17/2009: Paper Presentation, "The Search for Exclusivity: The Development of Gated Communities in the United States," at the Thirteenth National Conference on Planning History, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
11/8/2008: Paper Presentation, "The Neoliberal Dimension of Congestion Pricing in New York City," at the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
5/28/2008: Paper Presentation, "Uptown/Downtown: Social Inequality and Urban Development in Kingston, Jamaica" at the 33rd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, San Andrés, San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia.
12/15/2007: Panel Moderator at "Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across A Globalizing World," Conference, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
5/30/2007: Paper Presentation, "The Challenges of Organized Crime to the Governability of Jamaica," at the 32nd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
4/6/2007: Invited Plenary Talk, "The Difficult Existence of the Automobile in New York City," at the "Changing Automobilism: Trend Factors" Conference, Deutsches Haus, New York University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
4/21/2006: Commentator, "Social Movements Today," panel at "Miradas Desde El Sur," 5th Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
4/4/2006: Invited Talk, "The Relationship of Economic Policy and the Welfare State in the United States since the Great Depression," at Sociedad Latinoamericana de Auditoría de Servicios de Salud, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
4/3/2006: Invited Talk, "The Effects of the 2001/2002 Economic Crisis in the Urban Space of Metropolitan Buenos Aires," at Colegio Scönthal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
3/22/2006: Invited Talk, "Neoliberal Reform and Urban Space: The Cartoneros of Buenos Aires, 2001-2005," at the Humanities Institute, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
9/22/2005: Paper Presentation, "Spatial Fortification and Gated Communities: The American Experience in a Global Perspective," at the "Global Futures of World Regions Conference: The New America," Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany.
3/3/2004: Invited Talk, "Municipal Services and the Decline of New York City, 1945-1989," at the American Studies Program, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A.
8/6/2003: Invited Talk, "The Redevelopment of Times Square," at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa.
8/2/2003: Invited Talk, "City Trenches: Urban Fortification in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina," at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa.
2/6/2003: Invited Talk, "Disorderly Space: Power Relations and the Postwar Decline of New York City," at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
11/3/2001: Paper Presentation, "The Decline and Rebuilding of the South Bronx," at the Ninth National Conference on Planning History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.
4/27/2001: Paper Presentation, "Educational Institutions and Neighborhood Defense in New York City, 1945-1986," at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
10/8/2000: Paper Presentation, "Interdisciplinary Research in American Studies," at the Joint Meeting of the American Studies Center, Beijing University, China and Department of American Civilization, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
9/30/1999: Paper Presentation, "Representations of the South Bronx in American Culture," at the Fourth Meeting of the Congress of the Americas, Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla, Mexico.
9/4/1999: Paper Presentation, "Neighborhood Decline, Redevelopment, and Spatial Conflict: The Case of Morningside Heights," at the "New York, Chicago, Los Angeles Cultures and Representations — The Three Cities Project Second International Conference," Birmingham, England, U.K.
