Bradford Hunt

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  425 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, United States

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  On July 1, 2020, Brad Hunt became Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Loyola University Chicago. He leads a talented group of 30 full-time faculty that has produced award-winning scholarship, trained new generations of historians in its MA and PhD programs, and supports a nationally-recognized graduate program in Public History. From 2015-20, Brad served as Vice President for Research and Academic Programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He oversaw a highly-competitive fellowship program that brought over 50 scholars to the Library each year; guided four research centers; coordinated two research-intensive undergraduate seminars; and guided a range of public programming, adult seminars, and programs for teachers. In 2019, he led the Newberry’s Chicago 1919 project in partnership with 13 Chicago cultural institutions to confront the history of Chicago’s 1919 Race Riots and its legacies today. The project won the National Council on Public History’s 2020 Outstanding Public History Award. He is the co-author, with Jon B. DeVries, of Planning Chicago (American Planning Association Planners Press, 2013; Taylor & Francis, 2017) which tells the post-war history of city planning in Chicago and argues that the city needs to re-embrace comprehensive planning to address its many current and future needs. His history of the Chicago Housing Authority, entitled Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (University of Chicago Press, 2009), tells the story of the rise and fall of the city’s public housing developments, with an emphasis on the planning and policy choices that undermined the program. The book won the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) for the best book in North American Planning History in 2008-09 and received an honorable mention for the Kenneth T. Jackson Prize for best book in American urban history from the Urban History Association. Other publications include Out of the Loop, for the Vernacular Architecture Forum, co-edited with Virginia B. Price and David Spatz. With Jim Fuerst, he compiled interviews of former CHA residents and staff into an oral history collection titled When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago (U of Illinois Press, 2005). He is the Past President of SACRPH, ending his term as President in November 2019. Prior to Loyola and the Newberry, Brad was a dean and vice provost at Roosevelt University in Chicago, guiding the university’s adult degree-completion program, among others. Loyola University Chicago

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  Loyola University Chicago

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  On July 1, 2020, Brad Hunt became Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Loyola University Chicago. He leads a talented group of 30 full-time faculty that has produced award-winning scholarship, trained new generations of historians in its MA and PhD programs, and supports a nationally-recognized graduate program in Public History. From 2015-20, Brad served as Vice President for Research and Academic Programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He oversaw a highly-competitive fellowship program that brought over 50 scholars to the Library each year; guided four research centers; coordinated two research-intensive undergraduate seminars; and guided a range of public programming, adult seminars, and programs for teachers. In 2019, he led the Newberry’s Chicago 1919 project in partnership with 13 Chicago cultural institutions to confront the history of Chicago’s 1919 Race Riots and its legacies today. The project won the National Council on Public History’s 2020 Outstanding Public History Award. He is the co-author, with Jon B. DeVries, of Planning Chicago (American Planning Association Planners Press, 2013; Taylor & Francis, 2017) which tells the post-war history of city planning in Chicago and argues that the city needs to re-embrace comprehensive planning to address its many current and future needs. His history of the Chicago Housing Authority, entitled Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (University of Chicago Press, 2009), tells the story of the rise and fall of the city’s public housing developments, with an emphasis on the planning and policy choices that undermined the program. The book won the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) for the best book in North American Planning History in 2008-09 and received an honorable mention for the Kenneth T. Jackson Prize for best book in American urban history from the Urban History Association. Other publications include Out of the Loop, for the Vernacular Architecture Forum, co-edited with Virginia B. Price and David Spatz. With Jim Fuerst, he compiled interviews of former CHA residents and staff into an oral history collection titled When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago (U of Illinois Press, 2005). He is the Past President of SACRPH, ending his term as President in November 2019. Prior to Loyola and the Newberry, Brad was a dean and vice provost at Roosevelt University in Chicago, guiding the university’s adult degree-completion program, among others.

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  Loyola University Chicago