 In the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.He has also worked in politics at times, working as a researcher for political consultant Hank Sheinkopf in 2001, and as policy director for New York State gubernatorial candidate Thomas Suozzi in 2006.Siegel is co-author (with his father Fred Siegel) of "The Prince of the City