Martha Hodes

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Martha Hodes is an American historian . Her main research interests are the history of the United States . In doing so, she primarily looks at the 19th century, the history of racial relations, the civil war , reconstruction and gender aspects .

Life

Hodes studied at Bowdoin College in Brunswick , Maine , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1980 . She then continued her studies at Harvard University , where she received a Master of Arts degree in 1984 . She received another Master of Arts from Princeton University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in 1991.

From 1991 to 1994 she was Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz . In 1994 she moved to New York University . At the Department of History there , she taught from 1994 to 2000 as an assistant professor, from 2000 to 2007 as an associate professor and since 2007 as a full professor.

In 2009 she taught as a Fulbright Professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Jena . In 2010 she was Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. Since 2009 she has been a member of the editorial board of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice .

In 2011, Hodes was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians . In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society . She is also a member of the American Historical Association , the Organization of American Historians , the PEN American Center , the Society of Civil War Historians, and the Southern Historical Association .

Her book White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South won the 1992 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians . Her book Mourning Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians .

Publications (selection)

  • White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (1997, Yale University Press )
  • (Ed.): Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (1999, New York University Press)
  • The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (2006, WW Norton )
  • Mourning Lincoln (2015, Yale University Press)

Web links

  • Entry on the New York University website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Uni-Journal Jena ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 2009, website of the University of Jena @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-jena.de
  2. ^ Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize , website of the Society of American Historians
personal data
SURNAME Hodes, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH before 1980