Tim Kumfer is the 23-24 Mellon Sawyer postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, where he will coordinate a research seminar on the overlapping and co-constitutive elements of race, place, society, and the environment. He holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Maryland–College Park, where his dissertation “Counter-Capital: Black Power, the New Left, and the Struggle to Remake Washington, D.C. From Below, 1964-1994” explored how grassroots organizers fought for greater control over the city and its future between the War on Poverty and rise of neoliberal austerity. An interdisciplinary scholar of social movements and cities, his work draws on the fields of African American studies, urban studies, transnational American Studies, and 20th C. US history.