A cultural historian of 19th-century United States, Justin Tyler Clark is assistant professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture (UNC Press, 2018). His essays have appeared in the Journal of American Studies, New England Quarterly, American Journalism, Time & Society, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and other outlets.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Home in the Hinterlands: On Robin Hemley’s “Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood”
A reporting trip to topographical curiosities sheds light on what it means to be a world citizen....
Down and Out in Silicon Valley
Justin Tyler Clark reads the funny, frightening "Live Work Work Work Die."...
Nomads
On Jessica Bruder's "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century."...
