Editorial/Advisory/Board Member

Advisory Board, Cultuur & Campus Putselaan: A Sustainable Hub of Arts, Research, Learning, and Community, Rotterdam, Netherland (2024 – 2025)

Economic Justice Advisory Committee, Nonprofit Quarterly (2024 +) 

Advisory Council, Public Dollars for the Public Good Initiative, Marguerite Casey Foundation (2023-2024) 

National Council (elected), American Association of University Professors (2022 +)

Advocacy Advisory Council, Social Mission Alliance: A Health Equity Organization (2022 +)

Contributing Member, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education

Advisory Board, Shame of Chicago: The Segregation of an American City (five-part documentary series)

Book Series Editor, Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy, Temple University Press

Editorial Board, Journal of Urban History (2002-2008, 2013 +)

Executive Board, Urban History Association (2014-2017)

Advisory Board, Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots, NEH Community Conversations program, Newberry Library, Chicago 2019

Advisory Board, Show the World: 150 Years of Chicago Art and Design, (Four-Part TV series) WTTW-PBS, 2019

Interviews with Davarian Baldwin

Bill Ayers, “Reckoning with the Wreckage with Davarian Baldwin and David Stovall,” Under the Tree with Bill Ayers (December 4, 2024)

Siobhan Ryan, “Who Gets a Say in Safety,” Reorientation: A podcast exploring the history of UW-Madison… (November 25, 2024)

“Trinity Professor Receives Two-Year Grant to Support Research Lab,” www.trincoll.edu (November 20, 2024)

Daniel Perrin, “The Phoenix in Conversation with Davarian Baldwin on Higher Education, Urbanism, and Global Justice,” The Phoenix: Independent Newspaper of Swarthmore College (November 14, 2024)

“PILOT Advocate Visits Durham, Encourages Duke University to Pay Fair Share,” Durham Dispatch (April 13, 2024)

Andrew Concatelli, “Grant Supports Lab’s Work to Build Equitable Urban Communities” www.trincoll.edu (August 12, 2024)

Andy Hines and Dennis Hogan, “Universities and Democracy with Vineeta Singh, Olúfemi Táiwo, Donna Murch, and Davarian Baldwin,” Podalot (April 17, 2024)

Andy Ellis, “Universities, Communities, and the Struggle for Justice,” GoGreen2026 podcast (April 23, 2024) 

Michelle Witte, “Universities, Taxation, and Serving the Public Good,” [at 1:28:00] Political Misfits, Radio Sputnik (March 8, 2024)

V Spehar, “The Inequitable University Next Door,” V Interesting with V Spehar podcast (June 27, 2023)

Sasha Lilley, “Cities and the Big Business of Higher Education,” Against the Grain, 94.1 KPFA (June 13, 2023)

Tavis Smiley, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower,” The Tavis Smiley Show, KBLA Talk radio 1580 (April 25, 2023)

Alexia Hudson-Ward, “In Dialogue with Dr. Rasul Mowatt and Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin on the History and Import of Black Studies,” Toward Inclusive Excellence podcast, CHOICE360 (March 8, 2023)

Jeannette Cooperman, “What the Humanities Reveal,” The Common Reader: A Journal of the Essay (March 7, 2023)

Kristen Cole, “Trinity College’s Davarian Baldwin Named Prestigious Freedom Scholar,” www.trincoll.edu (December 6, 2022)

Feba Sukmana, “How Universities are Plundering Cities According to this Professor,” Erasmus Magazine (November, 24, 2022)

Marianne Klerk, “De cultuurcampus op Zuid is symbool voor de groeiende macht van universiteiten in steden,” Vers Beton (November 23, 2022)

Steve Grumbine, “Gentrification and Culture,” Macro N’ Cheese podcast (November 9, 2022)

“A renowned historian discussed the impact—good and bad—universities bring to communities,” Cincinnati Edition, WVXU 91.7 FM (October 6, 2022)

Alexia Hudson-Ward, “Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin on How Universities Exacerbate Inequities in Urban Living,” Toward Inclusive Excellence podcast, CHOICE360 (September 16, 2022)

John Henry Smith, “Davarian L. Baldwin spotlights the ‘Shadow of the Ivory Tower’,” Where We Live Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR (August 5, 2022) 

Kate Carpenter, “Davarian Baldwin Blends Ideas and Narrative,” Drafting the Past podcast (March 1, 2022)

Lee Vinsel, “Davarian Baldwin on In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower,” People & Things podcast (January 17, 2022)

Steve Grumbine, “Episode 149—Storming the Ivory Tower with Davarian Baldwin,” Macro N’ Cheese podcast (December 4, 2021)

Justin Mog, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower,” Sustainability Now! WFMP-LP 106.5 FM Louisville Forward Radio (October 4, 2021)

Lucia Hulsether and Tina Pippin, “Pillage.edu: Urban Universities Take the City (2-Part Episode),” Nothing Never Happens Radical Pedagogy podcast (September 17 and 21, 2021)

Justin Podur, “Universities are Plundering Cities, with Davarian Baldwin,” The Anti-Empire Project podcast (September 3, 2021)

Doug Storm, “The Mask of the Public Good: What the University Costs Communities,” Interchange WHFB 91.3 FM Community Radio Bloomington, IN (August 31, 2021)

Kate Wolf and Eric Newman, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower,” Los Angeles Review of Books podcast (July 2, 2021)

Nan Enstad, “How Universities Shape Urban Life,” A Public Affair WORT 88.9 FM Community Radio, Madison, WI (June 30, 2021)

Glen Ford, “U.S. Universities Have Turned into Rapacious Capitalist Machines,” Black Agenda Radio (June 14, 2021)

Kent Garrett, “Urban Universities are Ruining Our Cities,” The Last Negroes at Harvard podcast #26 (June 11, 2021) 

Mark Anthony Neal, “Davarian L. Baldwin and the Damage Universities Are Doing to American Cities,” Left of Black podcast (May 6, 2021)

Roberto Sirvent, “Book Forum: Davarian Baldwin’s ‘In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower,” Black Agenda Report (April 29, 2021)

Hari Sreenivasan, “How Ivy Leagues Are Plundering Our Cities,” Amanpour & Co., PBS (April 27, 2021)

John K. Wilson, “How Universities are Plundering Our Cities,” AcademeBlog (April 20, 2021)

Lurie Daniel Favors, “What Communities Can do to Stem the Harm of Universities,” Urban View SIRIUS XM Channel 126 (April 20, 2021)

Andrew Keen, “How Universities are Plundering Our Cities,” Keen On @Lithub podcast (April 7, 2021)

Steve Scher, “How Universities are Plundering Our Cities,” In the Moment podcast, Town Hall Seattle (April 5, 2021)

Lurie Daniel Favors, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, Urban View SIRIUS XM Channel 126 (March 31, 2021)

Leonard Lopate, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower,” Leonard Lopate at Large, WBAI 99.5 FM NYC (March 31, 2021)

Chuck Mertz, “When Universities Swallow Cities,” This is Hell! WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago (March 29, 2021)

Nick Tobier, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower,” C-SPAN TV (March 1, 2021)

Paul Basken, “Racial Equality Efforts ‘Must Not Stop at Campus Gates,’” Times Higher Education (February 23, 2021)

“Conversation with urbanist Davarian Baldwin,” Igniting Hope Radio Show, WUFO Power 96.5, Buffalo (July 19, 2020) 

“Davarian Baldwin on the Use of Blackface,” Amanpour & Co., PBS (March 5, 2019)

“On Cities, Racialized Poverty, and Collective Responsibility,” with Emma Shaw Crane New Poverty Politics for Changing Times podcast series (July 10, 2018)

Media Relations

Expert Comment, “Professor Davarian Baldwin Returns to Bull City to Cheer on Duke Respect Durham Campaign,” Durham Dispatch (February 26, 2025)

Expert Comment, Devin O’Shea, “The Ivory Tower Doesn’t Pay Taxes, but It Should Still Pay Up,” The Nation (February 6, 2025)

Expert Comment, Great Migrations: A People on the Move (Premiere, January 28, 2025)

Expert Comment, Corli Jay, “Chicago activists push for universities to pay for city services to ease budget woes,” The Tribe (December 12, 2024) 

Expert Comment, Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo, HISTORY Channel (Premiere, December 6, 2024)

Expert Comment, Justin Laidlaw, Erin Gretzinger, and Ren Larsen, “What Does Duke University Owe Durham?” The Assembly (November 21, 2024)

Expert Comment, Aaron Fernando, “Cornell Has Driven Up Local Cost of Living. Workers Had No Choice but to Strike,” Truthout (September 3, 2024) 

Expert Comment, Erica Phillips, “For big Hartford developer, challenges—and opportunities—abound,” CTMirror (August 13, 2024)

Expert Comment, Jaime Moore-Carrillo, “Fort Worth has high hopes for UT Arlington’s new campus. Will growth really follow?” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (August 13, 2024)

Expert Comment, Benjamin Hernandez, “Salovey to give capital campaign ‘a good push’ in final months as president,” Yale Daily News (October 24, 2023)

Expert Comment, Louis Hansen, “Virginia’s Public Universities Have a Long History of Displacing Black Residents,” ProPublica (September 11, 2023)

Expert Comment, Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen, “This Thriving Black Community was Destroyed to Create an All-White College. It’s Not the Only One,” Essence (September 5, 2023)

Guest, The Conversations Project (Episode 4), HULU (premiered, August 28, 2023) 

Expert Comment, Hilary Burns, “College Campus Police Employ Officers with Multiple Complaints,” Boston Globe (August 25, 2023) 

Expert Comment, ExclusionU, Cora Media (April 2023)

Expert Comment, Hannah Appel, “Tenant, Debtor, Worker, Student,” The New York Review (February 8, 2023)

Expert Comment, Tracy Rosenthal, “The University of California is Also a Landlord,” The New Republic (December 8, 2022)

Expert Comment, Caroline Reed, “Those Who Stay: New Haven Public School Teachers are Leaving for Nearby Districts with Higher Wages,” The New Journal (December 8, 2022)

Expert Comment, Alexis Moulton and Jamie Montoya, “Here First,” The Crow Issue, State Press Magazine (September 7, 2022)

Expert Comment, Alexis Waiss and Jamie Montoya, “Real Estate is King,” The Crow Issue, State Press Magazine (September 7, 2022)

Expert Comment, Liam Knox, “A University’s Attempt to Give Back Meets Local Resistance,” Inside Higher Education (July 20, 2022) 

Expert Comment, John Monkovic, “We Need Less Harvard, Not More,” The Nation (June 28, 2022)

Expert Comment, Paul Basken, “Do campus crime labs hurt communities they seek to help,” Times Higher Education (June 14, 2022)

Expert Comment, Rebecca Kelliher, “Rhode Island Bills Could Tax Private College Endowments, Properties,” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (May 27, 2022)

Expert Comment, Steve Dubb, “Anchors in the Storm—University Leaders Consider the Pandemic’s Lessons,” Nonprofit Quarterly (April 13, 2022)

Expert Comment, Ann Savchencko, “The UChicago community is searching for answers after a graduate’s murder,” WBEZ Chicago (December 20, 2021)

Expert Comment, Gwen Aviles, “They got Obama elected. Now activists fight to make sure his presidential center won’t displace Black residents,” Business Insider (December 8, 2021)

Expert Comment, Paul Basken, “University of Austin: The New Front in the Fight for US Campuses,” Times Higher Education (November 16, 2021)

Expert Comment, Paul Basken, “U.S. Universities Ponder Massive Debt to Native Americans,” Times Higher Education (October 28, 2021)

Expert Comment, Hilary Burns, “Colleges Reevaluate Safety Policies—and Budgets—Amid Calls to Defund, Disarm Campus Police,” The Business Journals (June 10, 2021)

Expert Comment, Paul Basken, “A Year After Floyd, U.S. Campuses Avoid Major Police Reform,” Times Higher Education (June 7, 2021)

Expert Comment, Tiffany Bui, “Scholarships in George Floyd’s Name Increase, to What End?” Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice podcast (May 27, 2021)

Expert Comment, Hilary Burns, “Amherst College Hires Consulting Group to Study Campus Policing,” Boston Business Journal (May 25, 2021)

Expert Comment, “Philip Marcelo, “Colleges pushed anew for reparations for slavery, racism,” ABC News (May 13, 2021)

Expert Comment, Hilary Burns and Craig Douglas, “Death, Taxes, and Ivory Towers: A Story About Yale University and the Untenable Ties to its Hometown,” The Business Journals (May 6, 2021)

Expert Comment, Hilary Burns, “Yale Draws Anger, Protests in New Haven as City Budget Troubles Persist,” The American City Business Journals (May 3, 2021)

Expert Comment, Paul Basken, “U.S. Colleges’ Billion Dollar Question: Is Philanthropy Worth the Cost,” Times Higher Education (April 29, 2021)

Expert Comment, Nicholas Phillips, “How Brooks Goedeker Changes Neighborhoods,” St. Louis Magazine (March 4, 2021)

Expert Comment, Tom Bartlett, “The Anti-Racist College,” Chronicle of Higher Education (February 16, 2021)

Expert Comment, Laurel Oldach, “Can Urban Universities Be Better Neighbors?” ASBMB Today (February 10, 2021)

Expert Comment, Hilary Burns, “Taxing Times: Colleges Eyed as Potential Tax Targets as Cities Struggle with Pandemic Losses,” Boston Business Journal (January 25, 2021)

Expert Comment, A.T. Williams, “Defund Campus Police,” Slate (Dec. 14, 2020)

Expert Comment, Julia Barajas, “At some U.S. universities, a time to rethink cops on campus,” Los Angeles Times (July 9, 2020)

Expert Comment, “Georgetown Slavery Reparations Plan Spotlights Institution’s Failings,” Times Higher Education (April 22, 2019)

Featured Commentator, The Ballads of Emmett Till, BBC Radio 4 (August 26, 2018)

Featured Commentator, Detroit: Comeback City, History Channel (July 1, 2018)

Featured Speaker, “The Great Migration,” C-SPAN TV (March 1, 2018)

Expert Comment, Barbara Mantel, “The Knowledge Economy,” SAGE Business Researcher (October 30, 2017)

Expert Comment, Rose Hackman, “What will happen when Harlem becomes white?” The Guardian (May 13, 2015)

Expert Comment, Matt Daneman, “Harlem Renaissance ushered in new era of black pride,” USA Today (February 4, 2015)

Expert Comment, Nick Pinto, “As Growth Shifts Into Overdrive, NYU Faces a Rebellion From Within,” Village Voice (February 20, 2013)

Expert Comment, “The Black Chicago Renaissance’s Stamp on American History,” The Afternoon Shift, WBEZ-91.5, Chicago (July 13, 2012)