Francesco De Salvatore is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at George Washington University. He is a historian of policing, urban America, and popular culture in the 20th century. Currently, he is working on a dissertation entitled “The Blues of Law and Order: The New York Police Department and Popular Culture, 1973-2001.” Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., Francesco worked as an oral historian, program manger, and archivist at StoryCorps, the National Public Housing Museum and the Special Collections at the University of Illinois at Chicago. These experiences led him to obtain a M.A. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he studied the historical formation of right-wing populism in an Italian-American community in the Near Westside of Chicago.