Professor Emeritus, Political Science; PhD, University of Chicago
Professor Crenson is a Baltimore native who graduated from City College. He earned his B.A. at Johns Hopkins and an M.A. and PhD from the University of Chicago. He has been a faculty member at Johns Hopkins since 1969. He has served as Department Chair, Associate Dean and Acting Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and faculty director of the Baltimore Scholars program. He is the author or co-author of eight books dealing with issues of urban and national politics, the most recent of which is Baltimore: A Political History (2017).
Current Interests: Reading, Research, Lecturing, Writing.