Josh Mound is a scholar of modern U.S. politics and policy. He received a joint Ph.D. in History and Sociology from the University of Michigan in December 2015. Prior to arriving at UVA, he was the Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in American Political Economy at Miami Universiy of Ohio. His book project is under advance contract for publication in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and his popular articles have appeared in the New Republic, Jacobin, and Salon