Elizabeth Kai Hinton | |
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Born | |
Awards | Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation |
Academic background | |
Education | New York University (B.A., 2005) Columbia University (M.A., 2007; M.Phil, 2008; Ph.D., 2013) |
Doctoral advisor | Eric Foner |
Other advisors | Heather Ann Thompson [1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | African and African American Studies |
Institutions | Harvard University Yale University |
Website | https://law.yale.edu/elizabeth-k-hinton |
Elizabeth Hinton (born June 26,1983) is an American historian. She is Professor of History,African American Studies,and Law at Yale University and Yale Law School. [2] [3] Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twentieth-century United States. Hinton was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. [4]
Born in Ann Arbor,Michigan [5] Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at Columbia University in 2013. [3] Before joining the Yale Faculty she was a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University,and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the University of Michigan Society of Fellows. [6] Hinton divorced her first husband in 2017. She is remarried and lives in New Haven with her current husband and their two children.
She has contributed articles and op-ed pieces to periodicals including The Journal of American History ,the Journal of Urban History , The New York Times , [7] and the Los Angeles Times . [3] [8]
Hinton's 2016 book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime examines the history and modern-day issues in regard to the intertwined relationship between crime and poverty. She argues that this relationship goes farther back than one would think,such as anti-delinquency acts,the "War on Poverty" and "War on Crime" in the Johnson administration,and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. [9]
Hinton served as PhD advisor for poet and scholar Jackie Wang. [10]
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