Simon Balto is a scholar, writer, and teacher of History and African American Studies. He is the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), and has written for multiple scholarly and popular publications, including TIME, The Washington Post, The Progressive, The Journal of African American History, Journal of Urban History, and Labor, among others. He teaches at The University of Iowa and is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. - from simonbalto.com