Jacob Anbinder is a PhD candidate in American history at Harvard, where he studies the politics of American cities and suburbs in the twentieth century. His research interests include the political economy of major infrastructure projects, movements for and against change to the built environment, and the ways in which sprawl and spatial segregation create social inequities. Jacob is a recipient of the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the American Historical Association, and his writing has been published in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, The Week, and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He holds a Master of Arts in history from Harvard and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University.

Project: Cities of Amber: Antigrowth Politics and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1950–2008

Respondent for HMUI Urban Conversations Event: To Burn a Fireproof Building: Race and Risk in the 1970s Bronx