Brent Cebul is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century and the coeditor of Shaped by The State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century. With Geraldo Cadava, N.D.B Connolly, and Lily Geismer, he is a coeditor of the new political history series America Reframed, published by the University of Chicago Press.
