Chad Broughton was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and spent much of his youth in Batesville, a small town in southeastern Indiana. His first book, Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tales of Two Cities, is based on several years of fieldwork in the U.S. and Mexico and is told through interwoven stories of people, places, and policies. Broughton is a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College and the Harris School at the University of Chicago, where he is an award-winning teacher and academic director of the Chicago Studies program. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, with his wife and three daughters.

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