Professor Lassiter has served on more than 60 dissertation committees at the University of Michigan, including 33 as chair or co-chair. The list below is divided into graduate advisees with published books, with dissertations completed, and with dissertations in progress.
Former Advisees: Books Published
Molly C. Michelmore (Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University), Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
Todd E. Robinson (Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas), A City within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan (Temple University Press, 2013).
N.D.B. Connolly (Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University), A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Andrew R. Highsmith (Associate Professor, University of California-Irvine), Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Lily Geismer (Associate Professor, Claremont-McKenna College), Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (Princeton University Press, 2015).
Allen Dieterich-Ward (Associate Professor, Shippensburg University), Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
Tamar W. Carroll (Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology), Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Clayton Howard (Associate Professor, Ohio State University), The Closet and the Cul de Sac: Sex, Politics, and Suburbanization in Postwar California (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
Brendan Goff, The Heartland Abroad: Rotary International and the World of Main Street (Harvard University Press, 2021).
Former Advisees: Dissertations Completed
David Helps (USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities), “Securing the World City: Policing, Migration, and the Struggle for Global Los Angeles, 1973-1994″ (2024).
Salem Elzway (USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities), “Arms of the State: A History of the Industrial Robot in Postwar America.” (2023).
Nicole Navarro (ALCS Postdoctoral Fellow), “The Forgotten Latino Community: Racial Formation and the Struggle for Political Representation in Washington, D.C., 1970-1993″ (2023).
Daniela Sheinen (Executive Director, Urban History Association), “Staging Neighborhood: Making Queens in the Construction of New York’s Last Great Park” (2022).
ToniAnn Trevino (Assistant Professor, University of North Texas), “Mexican Americans and the War on Narcotics: Racialized Policing Practices and Community Responses in the Postwar Texas Borderlands” (2022).
Antonio Ramirez (Associate Professor, Elgin Community College), “Chicagolandia: Race and Labor in Latinx Suburbia” (2021).
Steve Arionus, “The Shadows of Progress: Race, Renewal, and the Fight for Metropolitan Democracy in the Alamo City” (2019).
Walker Elliott, “The Unsettled State: Migration, Civil Rights, and the Birth of Tribal Bureaucracy among the Lumbee Indians” (2019).
Cyrus O’Brien (Senior Research Fellow, Alliance for Safety and Justice), “Redeeming Imprisonment: Religion, Science, and Mass Incarceration in Florida since 1941” (2018).
Nora Krinitsky (Lecturer and Director of Prison Creative Arts Project, University of Michigan), “The Politics of Crime Control: Race, Policing, and Reform in Twentieth-Century Chicago” (2017).
Scott De Orio, “Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights” (2017).
Joshua Coene, “The Contentious Prison: From Rehabilitation to Incapacitation in New South Wales and Pennsylvania, 1965-1990” (2016).
Drew Meyers, “Sun Citizens: The Culture and Politics of Retirement, 1950-2000” (2016).
Pascal Massinon, “Active Listening: The Cultural Politics of Magnetic Recording Technologies in North America, 1945-1993 (2016).
Austin McCoy (Assistant Professor, University of West Virginia), “No Radical Hangover: Progressive Responses to Economic Crisis in the Midwest, 1967-1988” (2016).
Josh Mound, “Inflated Hopes, Taxing Times: Fiscal Crisis, the Pocketbook Squeeze, and the Roots of the Tax Revolt” (2015).
Anthony Ross, “The Ownership Society: Mortgage Securitization and the Metropolitan Landscape since the 1960s” (2015).
Aaron Cavin, “The Borders of Citizenship: The Politics of Race and Metropolitan Space in Silicon Valley” (2012).
Diana Mankowski, “Gender and Disco: Exploring the Intersection of Sexual Revolution, Women’s Liberation, and Popular Culture in 1970s America” (2010).
Matthew Ides, “Cruising for Community: Youth Politics and Culture in Los Angeles, 1950- 1980” (2009).
Current Advisees: Dissertations in Progress
Stacey Bishop, “Remaking the Urban Outcast: Sex, Drugs, and Gentrification on the West Coast.”
Kat Brausch, “Every Trial Is a Political Trial: The Evolution of Movement Law in Postwar Detroit.”
Alex Burnett, “The Cis State: Punishing Transfeminity and the Rise of Trans Politics in Liberal San Francisco, 1966-1999”
Allie Goodman, “Regulating Children: Institutionalizing Care in Chicago’s Progressive Era Juvenile Legal System, 1899-1937.”
Reynolds Hahamovitch, “The Space Age: Horizons of the Future in the Cold War United States”
Alexander Stephens, “Excludable: Cubans, Migration, and Carceral States, 1971-1996.”