Research

Select publications:

• Poor Atlanta: Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development. University of Georgia Press, 2023.
• “Lobbying for Welfare in a Deep South State Legislature in the 1970s,” Journal of Southern History, 84 (August 2018): 653-96.
• [With photographs by Boyd Lewis.] “Emmaus House and Atlanta’s Anti-Poverty Movements,” Atlanta Studies, released 28 April 2015.
• Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950. University of Georgia Press, 2009.