He is the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, which is forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press. Research for that book was supported by a 2012 BMRC Summer Fellowship, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and other sources. His research and writing has appeared in the Journal of African American History, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, TIME, The Washington Post, The Washington Spectator, The Progressive, and more. simonbalto@gmail.com