He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from New York University. In 2006-2007, Pihos worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Diane P. Wood on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Over the past five years he has taught in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University and as Visiting Assistant Professor of African American History at Williams College, as well as in more experimental settings at Deep Spring College and the Arete Project. Pihos’s scholarly work focuses on the relationship between race, criminal justice, and urban politics. His book manuscript-in-progress tells the story of liberal criminal justice reform politics during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s through a history of Chicago’s Afro-American Patrolmen’s League.