Politics, particularly the American presidency, & the judiciary or courts. 

• Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles (American politics, political theory, & history)
• M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
• B.A. Political Science, Claremont McKenna College (then Claremont Men’s College)
• High School Diploma, Capitol Page School, Washington, D.C. (Rep Ketchum, William M. sponsor, eligible not by patronage)
   

My Books

• 2013 Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition(University of Chicago Press)
• 2005 Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care (New York: Routledge Press)
• 2001: Crippled Justice: History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace (University of Chicago Press) — Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention
• 1998Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935(University of North Carolina Press)
• 2008 (edited) Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination (ILR Division, Cornell University Press)
• 2004 (edited; wrote half of book’s essays) Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act (Oxford University Press, USA) — Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention
• Scholarly Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

• “Other Voices at the Workplace: Gender, Disability and An Alternative Ethic of Care,” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30, no. 2 (2005): 1529-55
• “From a Doctor’s to a Judge’s Gaze: Epistemic Communities and the History of Disability Rights Policy in the Workplace,” Polity 35 (April 2003): 325-46
• “‘A Sweatshop of the Whole Nation’: The Fair Labor Standards Act and the Failure of Regulatory Unionism,” Studies in American Political Development 15 (Spring, 2001): 33-52
• “Taking the Conservative State Seriously: Statebuilding and Restrictive Labor Practices in Postwar America,” Labor Studies Journal 21 (Winter 1997): 33-63
• “Duality and Division: The Development of American Labor Policy from the Wagner Act to the Civil Rights Act,” International Contributions to Labour Studies 4 (1994): 21-51
• “‘Business Unionism’ versus ‘Responsible Unionism’: Common Law Confusion: the American State and the Formation of the Pre-New Deal Labor Policy,” Law and Social Inquiry 18 (Spring 1993): 255-96

Book Series Editor, The Public Square, Princeton University Press

The Public Square series showcases some of the world’s finest public intellectuals writing on topics at the forefront of public discourse. It features authors — be they professors, journalists, essayists, poets, or novelists — whose distinctive voices resonate both within, and far beyond, the confines of the academy. Artful, accessible, and analytical, their essays contribute to international dialogue, shape and frame national debates, and engage with enduring and fundamental questions.

Selected Forewords for Scholarly Books & Articles (non-peer reviewed)

“What a Difference Thirty Years – 1978 to 2008 – Makes in the Transformation of Disability Law” Tulsa Law Review forthcoming

“Finding a Nexus between APD and American Political Thought,” Clio, 2013

“A Subversive Act: The Americans with Disabilities Act, Foucault, and an Alternative Ethic of Care at the Workplace,” Texas Women’s Law Review 13 (Fall 2003): 55-89

Foreword to Anne Norton’s On the Muslim Question (2013)

Foreword to David Marquand’s The End of the West, The Once and Future Europe (2012 & 2011 editions)

Foreword to Jill Lepore’s The Whites of their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History (2011 & 2010 editions)

Foreword to Martha C. Nussbaum’s Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (2010 & 2012 editions)

Foreword to Jeff Madrick’s The Case for Big Government (2008 & 2010)

Foreword to Andrei Markovits’s Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (2007)

Foreword to Joan Wallach Scott’s The Politics of the Veil (2007 & 2010)

Foreword to Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Hidden in Plain Sight: the Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Benjamin Franklin to Lionel Tate (2007)

Selected Book Reviews

• American Political Science Review (2002) on More than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Beard, by Clyde Barrow
• Journal of American History review article (December 2001) on U.S. Labor and Political Action, 1918-1924: A Comparison of Independent Political Action in New York, Chicago and Seattle, by Andrew Strouthous
• Journal of Policy History (Spring 2000) on Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921, by Joseph A. McCartin, and Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I, by Jeffrey Haydu.
• American Political Science Review(December 1999) on Office Politics: Computers, Labor, and the Fight for Safety and Health, by Vernon L. Mogensen
• Journal of American History (June 1997) on Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism, by Daniel R. Ernst
• American Political Science Review (March 1997) on Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Policy, by James A. Gross (Temple University Press, 1995), and Unions and Public Policy: The New Economy, Law, and Democratic Politics, edited by Lawrence G. Flood (Greenwood Press, 1995
• Journal of American History (March 1995) on A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937, by William G. Ross
• Law and History Review (Spring 1995) on Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism, by Philippa Strum

  Selected Encyclopedia Entries

• “Obama, Barack,” American Governance. Ed. Stephen L. Schechter. 5 vols. Detroit: Macmillan (forthcoming 2016)
• “American Disability Policy” in Poverty and Social Welfare: An Encyclopedia, Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds. ABC-CLIO (2004)