Michael Glass is a political and urban historian of the twentieth-century United States, with research and teaching interests in racism, capitalism, and inequality. His first book, Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (in progress, under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press), is a comparative history of race and class inequality in suburban America. The book investigates why it became necessary to borrow for the basic needs of housing and education. Focusing on the archetypal suburbs of Long Island, Cracked Foundations traces how these debt relationships entrenched segregation and distributed resources unevenly, as well as how they triggered political struggles for affordable housing, tax equity, and school funding equalization.