CURRICULUM VITAE Elizabeth Kai Hinton Department of History Department of African and African American Studies Harvard University Robinson Hall, Room 213 [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT July 2014 - Assistant Professor Department of History Department of African and African American Studies Harvard University
September 2012- July 2014 Assistant Professor Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Scholar University of Michigan Society of Fellows
EDUCATION Ph.D. with distinction, 2013 United States History Columbia University, New York, NY Dissertation Title: “From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1968-1988” Advisor: Eric Foner Committee: Ira Katznelson (Second Reader), Alan Brinkley, Mae Ngai, Heather Ann Thompson (Outside Reader)
M.Phil May 2008 United States History; Politics, Culture and the African Diaspora Columbia University, New York, NY
M.A. May 2007 United States History Columbia University, New York, NY Thesis: “The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement: Black Power and Labor, 1963-1968” Advisor: Manning Marable
B.A. May 2005 American Studies Minor: Caribbean Studies Gallatin School of Individualized Study New York University, New York, NY Magna Cum Laude
Full CV Available Upon Request 2 PUBLICATIONS Books in Contract From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: Race and Federal Policy in American Cities (with Harvard University Press).
Books Editor, with Manning Marable. The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Critical Black Studies Book Series, 2011).
Book Chapters “The Black Bolsheviks: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements and Shop Floor Organizing,” in The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Critical Black Studies Book Series, 2011).
Journal Articles Article. “ ‘A War Within Our Own Boundaries:’ The Rise of National Crime Control Programs and Urban Violence, 1965-1970.” Journal of American History, solicited volume on Historians and the Carceral State (Guest-Edited by Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson; forthcoming 2015).
Article. “Creating Crime: The Rise and Impact of Juvenile Delinquency Programs in Black Urban Neighborhoods.” Journal of Urban History, solicited volume on Carcerality and Urban Spaces (Guest-Edited by Heather Thompson and Donna Murch; forthcoming 2014).
Book Review. Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer. Published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics, and Society (Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp.88-90; 2007).
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 20th Century United States History, Carceral Studies, Urban Studies, African American History, Race and Inequality, Political History, History of Public Policy, Social Movements, Legal History, Race and Labor
MEDIA COMMENTARY The Tavis Smiley Radio Show National Public Radio, “All Things Considered”
SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS Postdoctoral Fellowships 2012-2014 Michigan Society of Fellows The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
National Fellowships 2010-2011 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship The National Academies, National Research Council