David M. Freund

David M. Freund is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, with an affiliate appointment in American Studies. His research focuses on metropolitan transformation, public policy, and the intersection of racial politics with economic and state-building processes in the modern United States.

Freund’s work spans historical analysis of financial policy, free-market ideology, and urban development. His publications reveal evolving dynamics between state power, monetary orthodoxy, and systemic inequality in 20th-century America.

He has contributed to significant public history projects such as Open City: Designing Coexistence and Race: The Power of an Illusion. His teaching portfolio includes courses on the U.S. survey, American metropolis, modern state-building, and the political economy of money, capitalism, and inequality.

Scientific Awards

• 2008 Ellis W. Hawley Prize (Organization of American Historians)
• 2007 Kenneth Jackson Book Award (Urban History Association)
• 2009 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award