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Martha HodesProfessor
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History
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Co-Director, New York University Humanities Council Workshop, " Storytelling Across Disciplines"
Princeton University, Ph.D. 1991
Email:
martha.hodes@nyu.edu
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Areas of Research/Interest: I have several projects in progress: a short book about race in world history for Oxford University Press; research on the uses and meanings of narratives about human skin color in the United States, with attention to transnational racial systems; and a history of the New York City race riot of 1900, in which I explore this event in ever-widening geographical arenas, from the streetcorner on which a black laborer and a white policeman clashed on an August night during an intense heatwave, to the effects of the ensuing violence upon the neighborhood, the city, the North, the nation, and beyond.
Affiliated with other departments or programs: Co-Director, New York University Humanities Council Workshop, " Storytelling Across Disciplines"
External Affiliations: Expert Advisory Panel, "American Lynchings: A Strange and Bitter Fruit," documentary feature-in-progress
Script Consultant, "History Detectives," PBS-Television Series
Fellowships/Honors: (Selected):
Fulbright Award, Germany; Lincoln Prize Finalist; Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians; Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library; National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.
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Select Publications:
The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (W.W. Norton, 2006). Lincoln Prize Finalist; Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club alternate selection; Best Books of 2006, Library Journal.
Please visit the website: http://SeaCaptainsWife.com
White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (Yale University Press, 1997). Winner of Allan Nevins Prize, Society of American Historians; Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York University Press, 1999, second printing 2004), edited collection.
"Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890," in Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, ed. Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press, 2006): 240-70.
“Four Episodes in Re-Creating a Life,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 10 (May 2006), forthcoming.
“The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story,” American Historical Review 108 (Feb. 2003): 84-118. Reprinted in American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History, ed. Donna R. Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz (University ofIllinois Press, 2005). Winner of Annual Article Award, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.
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