David Freund

David M. Freund studies metropolitan change, public policy, and the politics of opportunity in the modern United States. His first book—Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (University of Chicago Press, 2007)—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 publications include The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2014); “State Building for a Free Market: The Great Depression and the Rise of Monetary Orthodoxy,” in Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams, eds., Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2019); and “Monetary Dissent and the Erasure of State Power in American History,” in Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray, eds., The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024). He is now at work on a history of financial policy and free market ideology in the modern United States and on a documentary entitled "American Freedoms
 

Freund has contributed to public history, policy, and documentary projects including Open City: Designing Coexistence; California Newsreel’s Race: The Power of an Illusion; and the CERDWorking Group on Housing Segregation and Discrimination in the US. He teaches the US survey and courses on the American metropolis, modern state building, and the political economy of money, capitalism, and inequality.