Nicole Navarro

Ph.D. Student (History) and Graduate Supervisor Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab. Nicole Navarro’s dissertation research focuses on the urban and political history of policing, education, and housing in late-20th century Washington, D.C. through a comparative multiracial lens. She worked as the graduate supervisor for two digital exhibits produced by undergraduate HistoryLab students, “Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era” (1957-1973) and “Crackdown: Policing Detroit through the War on Crime, Drugs, and Youth” (1974-1993).