Brent Cebul

Brent Cebul is an Assistant Professor of History and teaches courses on 20th century U.S. urban and political history. His first book, Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century is under contract with Penn Press. In addition to writing for the Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Atlantic’s CityLab, he co-edited the volume, Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 2019) and was a lead PI on Renewing Inequality, a digital historical mapping project on the federal urban renewal program.