Marcus Anthony Hunter

Biography

Professor, Department of African American Studies; Professor, Department of Sociology; Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences

Professor Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, Associate professor in sociology, and Chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA. He is the author of Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (Oxford University Press, FINALIST for C. Wright Mills Award 2013; Honorable Mention, Komarovsky Award, Eastern Sociological Society 2016) which revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood immortalized in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro, following the transformation of the neighborhood from predominantly black at the beginning of the 20th century into a largely white upper middle class and commercial neighborhood by the century’s conclusion. Professor Hunter is also the co-author of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (with Dr. Zandria F. Robinson, Georgetown University). Published by University of California Press (January 2018), Chocolate Cities explores the experiences and politics of Black Americans since 1900 offering a new geography of American life. His most recently published book is Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of A Nation (Amistad Press, 2024). Professor Hunter’s research has benefited from grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. In addition, Hunter’s research and commentary on urban black life and inequality has been featured in journals and news media such as CSPAN’s BookTV, the Du Bois Review, Current Anthropology, City & Community, Sexuality Research & Social Policy, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Post and The New York Times.