His research focuses on African-American legal, political, and urban history in the 20th Century. His current project, “Home Front: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement” reconceptualizes the development and priorities of black protest in the post-World War II era through the lens of housing access litigation. He is a past recipient of the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Research Grant in U.S. Legal History and a former Giles. K. Whiting Fellow in the Humanities at Yale University. He is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University and received his joint-Ph.D. in History and African-American Studies from Yale in 2012.