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About Michael Stauch
I am associate professor of modern US history at the University of Toledo, specializing in policing and incarceration, urban studies, and social movements. Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing, my monograph on police reform in Detroit in the postwar period, was just published this fall with the University of Pennsylvania Press, and was featured on the New Books Network in July. I am interested in interviewing other scholars working on these fields, and also expanding my interests in digital humanities and public policy / law.
I have some experience interviewing scholars about new books in history through graduate seminars. In the past, I have invited the authors of recent books in US history to speak, virtually, with graduate students about those books, as well as the writing and researching processes involved in producing those books. It was a fun and rewarding experience to have these detailed conversations with other scholars about the content and contributions of their scholarship as well as the process involved in producing it.
NBN Episodes hosted by Michael:
March 11, 2026
The Containment
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across…
March 11, 2026
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
For fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they cha…
March 8, 2026
Black Excellence
A provocative new history of modern black liberalism Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)…
February 12, 2026
Fear and Fury
In this masterful, groundbreaking work Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, 2026),…
February 6, 2026
A Continuous Struggle
The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. A Co…
February 1, 2026
Let Us Alone
The racist roots of modern policing in Baltimore By the early twentieth century, postbellum assaults on civil rights and the advent of Jim Crow expan…
January 21, 2026
Brown and Blue
How police abuse ignited the Chicano movement in the Southwest Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest,…
December 11, 2025
Between the Street and the State
Beginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological support …
November 25, 2025
A Clean Hell
A Clean Hell opens the doors of America’s most secretive prison and lets the reader step into the cell to experience all the horrors the Federal Burea…
November 4, 2025
Their End Is Our Beginning
Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing” as we know it today come to be? What about the capitalist state necessitates po…
October 28, 2025
Police Against the Movement
Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (Princeton UP, 2025) shatters one of the most…
October 21, 2025
Unleashing Black Power
Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers (UVA Press, 2025) explores the local dynamics, nationa…