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, built environments, 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.  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” (reprinted in Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agendas, Chester Hartman, ed., Lexington Books, 2006).  He is currently writing a history of the federal state’s impact on economic growth, inequality, and ideas about the free market since the Great Depression, as well as essays on the politics and culture of urban and suburban redevelopment since the 1970s.
           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 Ford Foundation, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Princeton University, and the Graham Foundation for the Arts.  He teaches the U.S. history survey and courses on metropolitan history, 20th-century state building, racial formation and racial politics, and the political economy of capitalism and inequality in the modern U.S. 

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