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 is currently writing a history of the federal state’s impact on economic growth, inequality, and free market ideology since the Great Depression and essays on 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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