Recent/Forthcoming Writing


Book excerpt: Did the Wolf Finally Leave in Pittsburgh Review of Books, January 12, 2026



Commentary: Why steel isn’t coming back to Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 2026



Western Pennsylvania History magazine: Jupiter’s Moons, Winter 2024




Book excerpt: Panther Hollow was once envisioned as a roofed Valley of Tomorrow in Pittsburgh’s PublicSource, July 17, 2025

Commentary in RealClearPennsylvania: What History Teaches About Pennsylvania’s AI Chase, January 26, 2026. Also in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 8, 2026.

Commentary in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Why steel isn’t coming back to Pittsburgh, January 18, 2026

Pittsburgh Perspectives (Blog): Updated 2024 Census Population Estimates for the Pittsburgh MSA, March 18, 2025

Commentary: In Defense of the City of Pittsburgh, in RealClearPennsylvania, March 18, 2025

Commentary: U.S. Steel no-sale another chapter in a past that is long since gone, in Pittsburgh’s PublicSource, January 3, 2025

Commentary in RealClearPennsylvania: Pennsylvania’s Duty to Tax Fairly, August 13, 2024

Report: Profiles of Change in the City of Pittsburgh, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, June 2024

Report: Profiles of Change in Allegheny County, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, June 2024

Report: Corporate Investments in Single-Family Residential Properties in Allegheny County: Recent Impacts with Sabina Deitrick, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, May 2024


Other Forthcoming

Book review of: The 15-minute city, by Carlos Moreno, forthcoming in: Pennsylvania Geographer

Before the Navy Reserve, the Naval Militias, forthcoming in: Naval History, a publication of the U.S. Naval Institute