Elizabeth Kai Hinton
Born (1983-06-26) June 26, 1983 (age 39)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
AwardsRalph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation
Academic background
EducationNew York University (B.A., 2005)
Columbia University (M.A., 2007; M.Phil, 2008; Ph.D., 2013)
Doctoral advisorEric Foner
Other advisorsHeather Ann Thompson[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineAfrican and African American Studies
InstitutionsHarvard University
Yale University
Websitehttps://law.yale.edu/elizabeth-k-hinton

Elizabeth Hinton (born June 26, 1983) is an American historian. She is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University and Professor of Law at 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 to Alfred Hinton, an art professor and Ann Pearlman, a therapist. Her father's family moved north to Michigan as part of the Great Migration to become autoworkers.[5] Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at Columbia University in 2013.[3] She was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.[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]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Color and Incarceration". 8 August 2019.
  2. ^ Cummings, Mike (2020-09-16). "The new faces of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences". Yale News. 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".
  5. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (12 May 2021). "Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "Elizabeth Hinton". history.fas.harvard.edu. 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. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  8. ^ Hinton, Elizabeth (2016-07-15). "How not to handle protests? Look to the 1960s". Los Angeles Times. latimes.com. 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. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  10. ^ 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. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  11. ^ Thrasher, Steven W. (2016-04-19). "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime review – disturbing history". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  12. ^ Kumar, Priyanka (2016-09-24). "Turn Left or Get Shot". Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  13. ^ Hernández, Kelly Lytle (2016-10-10). "How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth". Boston Review. Retrieved 2018-01-23.

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