CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

JOSEPH HEATHCOTT, Associate Professor of Urbanism at The New School, is President of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History for 2013–2015, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association.

D. BRADFORD HUNT is the Dean of the Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies and Vice Provost for Adult and Experiential Learning at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is the author of Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

FRITZ UMBACH, Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), is the author of The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing (Rutgers University Press, 2011).

ALEXANDER GEROULD, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at San Francisco State University is the coauthor of Vold’s Theoretical Criminology, 6th Edition, (Oxford University Press, 2010) and coauthor with Kermit Alexander and Jeff Snipes of The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Atria Books, Forthcoming 2015).

NICHOLAS DAGEN BLOOM, Associate Professor of Social Science at the New York Institute of Technology, is the author of many books on urban affairs including Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

YONAH FREEMARK is a project manager at Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council, where he focuses on transit-oriented development, affordable housing strategies, and public transportation. He holds degrees in city planning and transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

LAWRENCE J. VALE, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of many works in planning and urban affairs including Reclaiming Public Housing (Harvard University Press, 2002) and From the Puritans to the Projects: (Harvard University Press, 2000; repr., 2007), and Purging the Poorest (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

FLORIAN URBAN, Professor and Head of History of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, is the author of Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011).

NANCY KWAK, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her forthcoming book is Homeownership for All: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid post-1945 (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

RHONDA Y. WILLIAMS, Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve, is the author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2004).

LISA LEVENSTEIN, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, is author of A Movement without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).