Marcus Anthony Hunter received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University in 2011. His research and teaching pursuits are driven by an interest in examining, analyzing, and uncovering how and why particular inequities exist and in what ways place, race, and the agency of urban blacks facilitate and/or mitigate such inequities. His book, 'Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America', recently published by Oxford University Press, revisits the Black Seventh Ward - immortalized in W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro (1899) - documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led anti-urban renewal mobilization, and post-Civil Rights political change from the perspective of the Black Seventh Warders. Drawing on historical, political, and sociological research, Hunter argues that black Philadelphians were not merely victims forced from their homes - they were citymakers and agents of urban change. His 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 on urban black life has been featured in the journals City & Community and Sexuality Research & Social Policy. In Fall 2011 Marcus joined the Yale University faculty as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology