My name is D. Bradford Hunt, and I am Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Loyola University Chicago. I have written one book on public housing in Chicago, another on post-war urban planning in Chicago, and contributed to oral history projects, and public humanities projects.
Full Bio here: D. Bradford Hunt is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Loyola University Chicago. Since July 2020, he has collaborated with the department’s 29 full-time faculty members to promote scholarship and teaching in history. The department supports 200 undergraduate majors and minors, manages thriving MA and PhD programs in History and Public History, and teaches dynamic courses in Loyola’s Core Curriculum. From 2015-20, Brad served as Vice President for Research and Academic Programs at The Newberry Library in Chicago, where he oversaw fellowship programs, four research centers, and programs for scholars, teachers, students, and the public. At the Newberry, he conceived and produced Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots, which won the 2020 National Council on Public History award for Best Public History Project. He is the co-author, with Jon B. DeVries, of Planning Chicago (American Planning Association Planners Press, 2013) which examines urban planning initiatives in Chicago since the 1950s. His history of the Chicago Housing Authority, entitled Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (University of Chicago Press, 2009), won the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society of American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) for the best book in North American Planning History in 2008-09. He served as President of SACRPH in 2018-19. Since 2008, he has served on the board of the National Public Housing Museum. Prior to the Newberry, he was a vice provost and dean at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he was also professor of social science and history. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Williams College.