Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, Associate professor in sociology, and Chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA. He is author of Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (2013) and coauthor with Zandria F. Robinson of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (2018, University of California Press). One of the key African American sociologists of this generation Dr. Hunter is a graduate of sociology from Northwestern University in 2011.