2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-1062
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: dmfreund@umd.edu

         David Freund specializes in 20th-century U.S. history, with a research focus on the American metropolis, racial politics, and the impacts of public policy on economic opportunity and popular ideology.  He is the author of Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which was awarded the 2008 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the 2007 Kenneth Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association, and the 2009 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award.  Other recent publications include “Marketing the Free Market: State Intervention and the Politics of Prosperity in Metropolitan America” (in The New Suburban History, edited by Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue, University of Chicago Press, 2006) and “‘Democracy’s Unfinished Business’: Federal Policy and the Search for Fair Housing, 1961-1968” (excerpted in Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agendas, edited by Chester Hartman, Lexington Books, 2006).  His current projects include a book-length history of the federal state’s impact on financial markets, economic growth, and free market ideology since the Great Depression and The Modern American Metropolis, an edited source book for Wiley Blackwell.

         Freund has contributed to a number of public history, public policy, and documentary projects, including California Newsreel’s Race: The Power of an Illusion and the CERD Working Group on Housing Segregation and Discrimination in the U.S., and has received grants and fellowships from, most recently, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Graham Foundation for the Arts.  He teaches courses on metropolitan history, modern state building, racial politics, and the political economy of capitalism and inequality.  Beginning in Fall 2011, he will direct the Undergraduate Honors Program for the Department of History.  

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