D. Bradford Hunt
Associate Professor of Social Science

Roosevelt University

Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies

Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) program

205-K Gage Building, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Chicago, IL 60605-1394

312-281-3132 (fax)

Teaching

BGS 390-98: Seminar in the Social Sciences (Fall 2007, Online)

BGS 302: Methods of Critical Reasoning (Fall 2008, Downtown)

BGS 290-25: Technological and Quantitative Literacy (Spring 2007, Schaumburg)

BGS 201: Pro-Seminar in Critical Skills (Fall 2003)

Education

Research

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf format)

Publications and activities:

Planning a Social Disaster: The Unraveling of Public Housing in Chicago.  Book manuscript under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press, Historical Studies in Urban America series.  Anticipated publication in 2009.

"Was the 1937 U.S. Housing Act a Pyrrhic Victory?", Journal of Planning History, 4:3, August 2005, 195-221.

"Understanding Chicago's High-Rise Public Housing Disaster," in Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, and Alternatives, edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Reudi Ray (University of Chicago Press, 2005).  

"How Did Public Housing Survive the 1950s?", Journal of Policy History, 17:2, Spring 2005, 193-216.

The Promise of Public Housing, 1936-1983: Photographs from the archives of the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Historical Society.  On display at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery from January 31 - March 11, 2005 and at the Albert A. Robin Rotunda Gallery in Schaumburg from March 23 - May 6, 2005.

When Public Housing Was Paradise, by Jim Fuerst with the assistance of D. Bradford Hunt (University of Illinois paperback, 2005).  Oral history collection of former staff and residents of public housing in Chicago.  Reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, January 11, 2004.

"What Went Wrong With Public Housing in Chicago? A History of the Robert Taylor Homes," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Spring 2001.

Research Interests:  Public Housing, Urban History, Policy History, Chicago History, American Politics, Congress

Service

Steering Committee Member and Program Committee Chair, Public Housing Museum (2007 - present)

Board of Directors, Urban History Association (2004-06), Membership Secretary (2006-present)

Advisory Board Member, Illinois State Historical Society (2001-2006)

Senate Executive Committee, Roosevelt Faculty Senate (2006-08)

Co-Host, Interface Radio, public affairs program (2002-present)

Evelyn T. Stone University College Faculty Secretary (2003-05)

Co-Chair, First Year Seminar Task Force, Committee on Retention (2003), click here for report (.pdf)

Team Leader, New Deal Service Day (2003-07)