Happy When Curious

Daniel Cumming: The History of Our Country Through the Lens of One City

October 07, 2022 Brady Ryan
Happy When Curious
Daniel Cumming: The History of Our Country Through the Lens of One City
Show Notes

Daniel is a historian whose research focuses on urban history, public health, racism, and capitalism in the twentieth-century United States. His dissertation, “Health is Wealth: The Rise of a Medical Metropolis and the Remaking of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century Baltimore,” traces the development of a postwar health care economy through housing, environment, and labor politics, focusing on the transformation of neighborhoods and livelihoods among its working-class residents. Daniel is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University.