Elizabeth Hinton

American historian (born 1983)

Elizabeth Kai Hinton

Born|  (1983-06-26) June 26, 1983 (age 41)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

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]

## Life

[edit]

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]

## Works

[edit]

* 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]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Color and Incarceration". 8 August 2019. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
2. ^ Cummings, Mike (2020-09-16). "The new faces of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences". Yale News. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
3. ^ a b c d "Elizabeth Kai Hinton". Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2017. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2018-03-17.
4. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022". Archived from the original on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
5. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (12 May 2021). "Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
6. ^ "Elizabeth Hinton". history.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-01-10. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
7. ^ Hinton, Elizabeth (2017-07-26). "Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing". The New York Times. nytimes.com. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
8. ^ Hinton, Elizabeth (2016-07-15). "How not to handle protests? Look to the 1960s". Los Angeles Times. latimes.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
9. ^ "'From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,' by Elizabeth Hinton". The New York Times. 2016-05-29. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
10. ^ Stallard, Natasha (23 May 2018). "Jackie Wang". Tank Magazine. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
11. ^ Perry, Imani (2016-05-27). "'From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,' by Elizabeth Hinton". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
12. ^ Thrasher, Steven W. (2016-04-19). "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime review – disturbing history". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
13. ^ Kumar, Priyanka (2016-09-24). "Turn Left or Get Shot". Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
14. ^ Hernández, Kelly Lytle (2016-10-10). "How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth". Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
15. ^ "Elizabeth Hinton has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa 2017 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award". Harvard University | History Department. October 3, 2017. Archived from the original on December 12, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.

## External links

[edit]

* 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.

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* Czech Republic
* Israel

People|

* DDB

Other|

* IdRef