Claire Dunning is an assistant professor of public policy and history at the University of Maryland, College Park. She studies the political and urban history of the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on how the nonprofit sector has and has not addressed racial and economic inequality. She is the author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State (University of Chicago Press, 2022), a book tracing the consequences of pursuing a public good through private organizations from the 1950s to the present. Her research has also been published in several academic journals and public outlets, including the Washington Post and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Dunning holds a PhD in history from Harvard University and an AB from Dartmouth College. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and previously worked at a community foundation.