Expertise

Dissenters and Protest Movements
Social and Cultural History

Teaching Interests

Dissent in America
Protest Music
Cold War Culture
Global Terrorism

Current Research

Protest Music of the Cold War 

Representative Publications

• American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent, New York: New York University Press, 2024.
• ​​​​Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century, New York: New York University Press, 2016. (Named one of the five best art books of 2016.)
• Dissent: The History of an American Idea, New York: New York University Press, 2015. Finalist for the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
• Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped a Nation, New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.

Education

BA 1964, Houghton College
MA 1967, Michigan State University
PhD 1971, Michigan State University

Previous Appointments

1974-1978 Bremen Universität, Lehrbeauftragter
1997-2000 Widener University, Adjunct​​​​​
1996-2000 Penn State University, Adjunct