Elizabeth 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]

• America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, New York: Liveright, 2021. ISBN 9781631498909
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780674979826, OCLC 1007099147^{[11][12][13][14][15]}
• Co-edited with Manning Marable, The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN 9781403977779^[3]

• Official website at Yale Law School
• Interview with Elizabeth Hinton, July 30, 2016, African American Intellectual History Society
• Heffner, Alexander; Elizabeth, Hinton (October 8, 2016). "The Carceral States of America". The Open Mind, Thirteen. Retrieved December 26, 2018.