Book in Progress: 

Blackbody: The Persistence of Lynching in the Black American Experience. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press (Under Contract)

Publications:

1) Political Foundations of Racial Violence in the Post-Reconstruction South, Forthcoming at The Quarterly Journal of Economics  (with Patrick Testa)

2) Only See a Few Blacks the Higher I Go: Occupational Segregation and the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2025. The Review of Black Political Economy. DOI: 10.1177/00346446241308842.  (with Taylor Frankin & Andre Brown)

3) Palliative Care Is the Only Medical Field That I Feel Like I'm Treated As a Person, Not As a Black Person: A Mixed-Methods Study of Minoritized Patient Experiences with Palliative Care. 2024. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 26(2), 220-227. (with Julia I. Bandini, Lucy B. Schulson, Claude Messan Setodji, Katherine Ast, Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia)

4) Historical lynchings and the contemporary voting behavior of blacks. 2022. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(3), 224-53.

5) Confederate streets and black-white labor market differentials. 2021. AEA Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 111, pp. 27-31).

6) The persistence of historical racial violence and political suppression: Implications for contemporary regional inequality. 2021. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 694(1), 92-107. (with Trevon D. Logan, Bradley Hardy)

7) Americans' View of the Impact of COVID-19: Perspectives on Racial Impacts and Equity. 2021. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 46(5), 889-924. (with Katie Carman, Anita Chandra, Carolyn Miller, Christopher Nelson)

Selected Working Paper:

Highway Length Matters: Unequal Racial Impacts of Interstate 10 in New Orleans (with Bethany Perkins and Ashley Scott)

Abstract:
Using newly constructed data from historical maps, we exploit variation in interstate length within neighborhoods in New Orleans to document the effect of Interstate 10 on housing outcomes. We show that Black neighborhoods exposed to a longer span of Interstate 10 experienced immediate and persistent declines in occupied housing units, owner-occupied housing units, and median home values. In contrast, White neighborhoods exposed to a longer span of the interstate experienced no significant changes in these housing outcomes. We provide evidence that these findings are due to interstate placement, with routes in Black neighborhoods located closer to the neighborhood center.