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About Jeffrey Lamson
I am a third year PhD student in world history at Northeastern University. My research focuses on the history of police technology, its relationship to the history of police reform, and its place at the intersection of U.S. domestic policing and global counterinsurgency. My dissertation topic considers the history of the police car from about 1930 through the 1980s. Over the past year I have been completing my comprehensive exams reading in my major field - US history after 1865 - and my two minor fields: the history of science & technology and security & surveillance in world history. Prior to beginning my PhD program I was a high school history teacher for 7 years and earned a Master's in Education in 2017. From that work experience, I am very interested in finding ways to explain complex historical analysis to non-specialists.NBN Episodes hosted by Jeffrey:
February 17, 2024
DARE to Say No
With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug educatio…
January 13, 2024
Gotham’s War within a War
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on …
December 12, 2023
Policing Empires
The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, prop…
October 21, 2023
Police and the Empire City
During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the…