Joel Black

STRUCTURING POVERTY IN THE WINDY CITY: AUTONOMY, VIRTUE, AND ISOLATION IN POST-FIRE CHICAGO (University Press of Kansas, 2019)

“Inspired Filth: Working Blue in Vaudeville America,” with William Mercer, THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LAW REVIEW, Vol. 53, 2022

“Where Illness Takes Us”: Vernaculars of Pain on New York’s Lower East Side with Erin Cunningham, JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY (in production, 2021)

“Citizen Kane: The Everyday Ordeals and Self-Fashioned Citizenship of Wisconsin’s ‘Lady Lawyer,’” LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW 33 (February, 2015), 201-230.

"A Theory of African-American Citizenship: Richard Westbrooks, The Great Migration, and the Chicago Defender's "Legal Helps" Column," JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 46 (2013): 896-915

"Space and Status in Chicago's Legal Landscapes," JOURNAL OF PLANNING HISTORY 12 (2013): 227-244

"Ferlinghetti on Trial: The Howl Court Case and Juvenile Delinquency," BOOM: A JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA. 2 (2012): 27-43

“A Crime to Live Without Work: Free Labor and Marginal Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1870-1920,” MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 36: 2 (Fall 2010)