Andrew J. Diamond

Andrew Diamond (PhD, University of Michigan, 2004) is Professor of American history and civilization at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, where he directs the research group Histoire et dynamique des espaces anglophones (HDEA). He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and books on the history of race, politics, and political culture in the urban United States, including Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969 (University of California Press, 2009) and Histoire de Chicago (Editions Fayard, 2013). His forthcoming book, City on the Make: Race and Inequality in Chicago (University of California Press, 2017) explores the link between race and neoliberalization at Chicago’s grassroots over the twentieth century. He is also currently co-editing a collection of essays with Thomas Sugrue on the neoliberalization of US cities in the postwar era.