The filmmaker

David Freund is a writer, filmmaker, and Associate Professor of History at The University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of the prize-winning Colored Property (Chicago, 2007) and The Modern American Metropolis (Wiley, 2015) and his work has appeared in venues including The Washington Post, Just Money, and The Metropole. He received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, taught previously at Princeton University and Rutgers University, Newark, and studied documentary filmmaking at The Tisch School of the Arts.

For over three decades Freund has contributed to public history and educational projects including workshops for K-12 students and teachers, museum and digital exhibits, and documentary film series. He has received grants and awards from organizations including The Smithsonian Institution, the Organization of American Historians, The U.S. Department of Education, the Urban Affairs Association, the Ford Foundation, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Freund grew up in suburban Los Angeles, attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked in publishing and the restaurant industry before pursuing a career in history. He and his wife divide their time between Maryland and West Virginia, and their kids will be the first to tell you that he makes a really good risotto and pasta Bolognese.