• How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces
  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  Co-winner of the Dennis Judd award for the best book on urban politics by the American Political Science Association’s Urban Politics Section, 2014
• De-facing Power
  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 

Edited Volume

• Justice and the American Metropolis (with Todd Swanstrom).
  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

• “Power: A Structural View.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 2022; the Inequality and Social Policy Seminar, Harvard Kennedy School, April 2022; and the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal, Quebec, September 2022.
• “Disruption: What Is It Good For?” Featured speaker at the “Injustice, Resistance, and Progress” Conference at the London School of Economics, June 2018; presenter at the “Black and Blue” Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, January 2019 and the Political Science Speaker Series at the University of Toronto, March 2019. 
• “Disruption.” Presented at the Faculty Fellows’ Seminar, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard, January 2018; the Boston University Research in American Politics Seminar, February 2018; the Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center Democracy Seminar, February 2018; and the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2018. 
• “On Structural Power.” Presented at the annual Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Prague, May 2017. 
• “Structural Power and the All-Affected Principle.” Presented at the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation – Harvard Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Workshops on “Democratic Inclusion in a Globalized World: Debating the All-Affected Principle,” December 2016 and June 2017.
• “Disrupting Injustice.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA and the Berkeley Workshop in Moral, Political, and Legal Theory, September 2016.
• “Responsibility and Ignorance: On Dismantling Structural Injustice.” Presented at the MIT Department of Political Science, October, 2016; the Brown University Political Theory Workshop, Providence, Rhode Island, April, 2015; the Workshop on Politics, Ethics, and Society, Washington University in St. Louis, April, 2015; the University of Pennsylvania Political Theory Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February, 2016; the University of Iowa Inequality Seminar Series, Iowa City, Iowa, February, 2016; the University of California, Los Angeles, Political Theory Workshop, Los Angeles, California, April, 2016; and the “Inequalities/Equalities in Cities” Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April, 2016. 
• “Like Any… Citizen Would Want: Fragmentation’s Consequences in and Beyond Ferguson.” With Colin Gordon. Presented at the “Deconstructing Ferguson” meeting, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, May 2016. 
• “Dismantling Structural Racism.” Idea brief presented at the “Deconstructing Ferguson” meeting, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2015. 
• “How Americans Make Race.” Presented at the History, Political Science, and International Relations program, Webster University, St. Louis, January 2014; the Missouri Conference on History, St. Louis, MO, March, 2015; the Political Science Colloquium, William and Mary College, November, 2014; and the Political Science Colloquium, University of Missouri-St. Louis, February, 2014. 
• “Structural Racism in and Beyond Ferguson.” Presentation on “Place Matters” panel sponsored by the Confluence Scholars Strategy Network, St. Louis, MO, October 2014. 
• “How Americans Make Race.” Author meets critics roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 2014. 
• “Home, Sweet Home.” Presented Ohio State University’s COMPAS (Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society) conference, “Public/Private,” Columbus, Ohio, April 2014 and at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2013. 
• “Identities and Stories.” Presented at the “Race Across the Atlantic” workshop at Washington University in St. Louis, April 2011; the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011; the Washington University Law Faculty Workshop, March 2012; and the Program in Ethics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, November, 2012. 
• “Stories and Spaces: How Americans Make Race.” Two-day book manuscript workshop sponsored by the political theory group at Washington University in St. Louis, September 2012.  
• “What’s Wrong with the Mall? Power and Publicity in Democratic Politics.” Presented at the University of Birmingham Symposium on Power and Interests, September 2010, Birmingham, UK; the Washington University Political Theory Workshop, St. Louis, MO, January 2011; the Duke University Political Theory Workshop, Durham, NC, February 2011; and the conference “Spatiality and Justice: Interdisciplinary Investigations on a Political Philosophy of the City,” Montreal, Canada, May 2011.
• “Thick Injustice.” With Todd Swanstrom. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2010. 
• “The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-)Democratic Polity. Presented at the annual Law and Society meeting, Chicago, May 2010.
• “Against Recognition: Identity Politics and Democratic Nondomination.” With Ron Watson. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Political Theory, College Station, TX, October 2008 and the Washington University Political Theory Workshop, St. Louis, MO, January 2010.
• “Bad Stories: Narrative, Citizen Identity, and the State’s Materialist Pedagogy.” Presented at the Open University Symposium on the Pedagogical State, Milton Keynes, UK, September 2008; the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC, March 2009; the annual meeting of the International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, July 2009; and the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, ON, September 2009.
• “Black Places.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2008; the Washington University Political Theory Workshop, St. Louis, MO, October 2008; and Columbia University’s Center for Urban Policy Research, New York, NY, March 2009.
• “Not Your Father’s Vocation: Political Theory and Empirical Political Science.” Presented on the roundtable / theme panel “(How) Should Normative Political Theorists Use Empirical Findings?” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2007.
• “What Can Political Freedom Mean in a Multicultural Democracy? On Deliberation, Difference, and Democratic Governance.” Presented at the Workshop on Deliberative Politics and Institutional Design in Multicultural Democracies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada May 2007; the Washington University Political Theory Workshop, St. Louis, MO, October 2007; the University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop, Chicago, IL, October 2007; and the Department of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, September 2008.
• “Making Interest: On Representation and Democratic Legitimacy.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006; the Yale Political Science Department Conference on Representation and Popular Rule, New Haven, CT, October 2006; and the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, April 2007.
• “The Power of Space: Identity, Interest, Action.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006; the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 2008; the European Consortium for Political Research Workshop on Metropolitan Governance and Inequality, Rennes, France, April 2008; the Washington University Seminar on the City, April 2008; and Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, May 2008.
• “Democracy’s Identity Problem: Is Constitutional Patriotism the Answer?” Presented at the Institute for Advanced Study, April 2006; Princeton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs (PEPA), Workshop on Constitutional Patriotism, April 2006; and Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, April 2007.
• “Constitutional Patriotism and Its Others.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2004.
• “Narrative, Collective Identity, and Civic Education.”  Presented at the Fall Fellows Forum of the National Academy of Education, Stanford, CA, October 2004.
• “Binding Problems, Boundary Problems: The Trouble with “Democratic Citizenship.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2003; the Yale Political Science Department’s Conference on Identities, Affiliations and Allegiances, New Haven, CT, October 2003; and Texas A & M University’s Conference “Citizenship Unbound,” November 2003. 
• “Democracy, Difference, and the American City.” Presented at The Democracy Collaborative Conference, University of Maryland, January 2002 and the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2000.
• “Cities and Citizens.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 2001.
• “Doxa and Deliberation.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2001.
• “Defacing Power.” Author meets critics roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000.
• “On Power and Freedom.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1999 and the Yale Political Theory Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut, April 1999.