David Stein is the Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received his PhD from University of Southern California’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity in 2014. Trained in interdisciplinary methods, he is a historian whose work focuses on the interconnection between social movements and political and economic relations in post-1865 U.S. history. His fields of interest include African American Studies, history of capitalism, working-class and labor history, policing and imprisonment, Urban Studies, and feminist and heterodox economics. He is currently working on his book manuscript, “Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929-1986” which focuses on the politics and economics of unemployment. The project details the efforts of Black freedom movement organizers to create governmental guarantees to a job or income, and how such efforts were stifled.
He co-hosts and produces Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast with Betsy Beasley.
https://whomakescentspodcast.com/