Campus Directory

Pronouns he, him, his, his, himself

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History Department
History of Consciousness Department
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Title Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Music Department
Latin American & Latino Studies
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Jazz
American Studies
California History
Improvisation
Urban studies
Cultural Studies

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
235

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Spring 2024: By appointment; email to set up zoom or in-person appointment; Tuesdays and Wednesdays are usually best for in-person

Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

B.A. History, UC Berkeley
M.A. American Studies, University of Michigan
Ph.D. American Studies, University of Michigan

Research Interests

Black cultural and intellectual history; US cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies; black radicalism; urban studies.

Selected Publications

Recent books:

• A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport (UC Press)

• Sound Changes: Improvisation and Transcultural Difference [co-edited with Daniel Fischlin] (University of Michigan Press, 2021)

• Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath [co-edited with Daniel Fischlin] (Duke Univesity Press, 2020)

Courses HIS 120: W.E.B. Du Bois
HIS 20: Popular Music Movements
HIS 122A: Jazz and United States Cultural History
HIS 122B: Jazz and United States Cultural History
HIS 190C: 9/11 in Historical Perspective
HIS 204C: Colonialism, Nationalism And Race Research Seminar
HISC 216: Critical Race/Ethnic Studies
HISC 232: Music/Social/Thought
HISC: 246: Black Radicalism
HISC 249: Black Ecological Thought