Michael Stauch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
20th Century U.S., Race and Ethnicity, Urban History
UH 5210F
419.530.7985
Michael.Stauch@utoledo.edu
Biography
Michael Stauch, Ph.D., is a historian of the modern United States, politics, and policing. His first book, Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in August 2025. The book explored how Black youth in Detroit made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policing that emerged during the tenure of Coleman Young as the city's first African American mayor, from 1974 to 1993.
After receiving his doctorate from Duke University, Dr. Stauch spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis at the University of Michigan. Dr. Stauch's research and writing have appeared in the Journal of Urban History and the Washington Post. More recently, Dr. Stauch has started hosting a podcast with the New Books Network, where he interview authors of new books on modern US history, political history, and urban history. Dr. Stauch loves a good book about Detroit and the Midwest.
Dr. Stauch is able to supervise MA and PhD dissertations on 20th century US history, histories of social movements and cities, political history, and the history of policing.
