D. Bradford Hunt

Associate Dean, 

Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies

Associate Professor of Social Science and Chair,

Department of Professional and Liberal Studies

Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS) and 

Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS) program

Office Location

205-K Gage Building, 

18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Mailing Address

Roosevelt University - Gage 200

430 S. Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL 60605-1394

Contact Me

dbhunt@roosevelt.edu  

312-281-3145 (phone)

312-281-3132 (fax)

Teaching

PLS 302: Methods of Critical Reasoning (Fall 2009, Downtown)

HIST 342: History of City Planning (Spring 2009, Downtown)

BGS 390-98: Seminar in the Social Sciences (Fall 2008, Online)

Education

Research

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf format)

Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing.  University of Chicago Press, Historical Studies in Urban America series, July 2009.  

• 2009 Lewis Mumford Book Prize, best book in American planning history, Society of American City and Regional Planning Historians. 

• Reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, August 15, 2009. 

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.

"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.

"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

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

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

Illinois State Historical Society, Advisory Board Member (2001-2006, 2008 - present)

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

Interface Radio, Roosevelt's public affairs program, co-host (2002-present)

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

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