Book Projects
Nation for Rent: How Housing Shelters an American Crisis Under review with the University of Chicago Press.
Poison Pill: Toxic Inequality in Postindustrial America Under revision and in conversation with academic presses.
Articles Published
Articles in Progress
“Bonded to Waste: A History of Medical Waste Incineration, Toxic Financialization, and Environmental Injustice in Postindustrial Baltimore,” co-authored with Dr. Nicole Fabricant (under review at Social History, Fall 2026).
“Beyond Urban Climate Resilience,” co-authored with Chris Pearson, et al. (under review at Environmental Humanities, Fall 2026).
“All that is solid melts into air: Burning Trash, INCITE-ing Black Power, and Building an Environmental Movement in Baltimore, 1961-1983” (under review at the Journal of Urban History, Summer 2026).
“Of Plantations and Empires: Jack O’Dell’s Black Radical Tradition, ‘Union Power, Soul Power,’ and the Hospital Workers’ Revolt of 1969-1974” (under review at The Journal of African American History, Summer 2026).
“Who Pays the Bill? A History of Energy Theft, Electricity Blackouts, Tenant Organizing, and Power Struggles in Post-1945 New York City” (in development with the “Carbon Bodies” workshop at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, Fall 2026).
Awards
Winner of the 2020 Nicholas C. Mullins Award, Exemplary Graduate Student Scholarship, The Society for Social Studies of Science
Winner of the 2023 John Reps Prize, Best Dissertation Award, The Society for American City and Regional Planning History
“Housing Inequality in 20th Century America,” in Uncovering Inequality, eds. Jelani Cobb and Dolores A. Barclay (Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights, Columbia University, 2023).
“Black Gold, White Power: Mapping Oil, Real Estate, and Racial Segregation in the Los Angeles Basin, 1900-1930,” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 4 (2018): 85-110.
Public History
Oral History Project: LES Stories of Heat, Home, and Resilience Partners: CUNY Climate Justice Hub, Shaheeda Smith, Good Old Lower East Side (2025-2026)
Oral History Project: Nothing About Us Without Us Partners: Inheritance Baltimore, Urban Health Institute, Ms. Edna Manns-Lake, Fayette Street Outreach (2023-2024)
“Melting Metropolis: Extreme Heat in the Lives of Past, Present, and Future New Yorkers,” NYCPS curriculum, co-written with Dr. Kara Schlichting, Center for Schools, New York Public Library (forthcoming).
“How London, Paris, and New York Coped in Heat Waves of the Past,” in The Conversation Blog, June 2026.
“Breaking Down Metropolitan Heat with Dr. Daniel Cumming,” Hot Takes Podcast, UCLA Heat Lab, February 2026.
“Building a Summer Archive with Community-Led Oral Histories,” Melting Metropolis Blog, March 2026.
“Member Spotlight: Daniel G. Cumming,” in Society for American City and Regional Planning History, March 2026.
“New York Climate Exchange: Daniel Cumming,” in The Climate Story Project, NY Climate Exchange, September 2025.
“Melting Metropolis: An Interview with Daniel Cumming and Kara Murphy Schlichting,” in The Gotham Center for New York City History Blog, September 2025.
“The Baltimore Plan of Housing Law Enforcement: St. John’s Court and the City Health Department’s Powers of Demolition, 1939 to Today,” in Circulating Now, From the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine Blog, June 2024.