Elizabeth Hinton

{{short description|American historian (born 1983)}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Elizabeth Kai Hinton | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|6|26}} | birth_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | nationality = | citizenship = | residence = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | children = | awards = Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation | website = https://law.yale.edu/elizabeth-k-hinton | education = New York University (B.A., 2005)<br />Columbia University (M.A., 2007; M.Phil, 2008; Ph.D., 2013) | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Eric Foner | academic_advisors = Heather Ann Thompson<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/09/elizabeth-hinton | title=Color and Incarceration | date=8 August 2019 | access-date=20 September 2022 | archive-date=27 August 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827124656/https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/09/elizabeth-hinton | url-status=live }}</ref> | influences =  | era = | discipline = History | sub_discipline = African and African American Studies | workplaces = Harvard University<br />Yale University | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Elizabeth Kai 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.yale.edu/2020/09/16/new-fas-faculty-reflects-commitment-excellence-and-diversity|title=The new faces of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences|first=Mike|last=Cummings|website=Yale News|date=2020-09-16|accessdate=2020-09-29|archive-date=2020-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925103501/https://news.yale.edu/2020/09/16/new-fas-faculty-reflects-commitment-excellence-and-diversity|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Gale">"Elizabeth Kai Hinton". ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2017. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2018-03-17.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2022 | title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022 | access-date=2022-09-20 | archive-date=2022-05-27 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527201656/https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2022 | url-status=live }}</ref>

== Life == Hinton was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to her parents, Ann Pearlman, a psychotherapist and writer, and Alfred Hinton, a retired art professor at the University of Michigan.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/arts/elizabeth-hinton-america-on-fire.html|title = Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 12 May 2021|last1 = Schuessler|first1 = Jennifer|access-date = 20 September 2022|archive-date = 17 May 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210517125846/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/arts/elizabeth-hinton-america-on-fire.html?action=click&block=more_in_recirc&impression_id=b037e394-b70e-11eb-8903-c394dddff48f&index=5&pgtype=Article&region=footer|url-status = live}}</ref> She grew up in Ann Arbor but spent time in Saginaw, an hour north of the city. Her paternal grandfather was recruited by General Motors to leave the south for the north to work in a factory. As Saginaw declined, Hinton recalled the impact that drugs and unemployment had on her cousins who were often in and out of prison. That experience went on to influence her academic career.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gibson |first=Lydialyle |date=2019-08-08 |title=Historian Elizabeth Hinton: a profile {{!}} Harvard Magazine |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/08/elizabeth-hinton#:~:text=She%20grew%20up%20in%20Ann,at%20the%20University%20of%20Michigan. |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=www.harvardmagazine.com |language=en}}</ref>

She received her B.A. in Historical Sociology from New York University's Gallatin School in 2005.<ref name=":0" /> Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at Columbia University in 2013.<ref name="Gale" /> Hinton divorced her first husband in 2017. She is remarried and lives in New Haven with her current husband and their two children.

== Career == 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Hinton |url=https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/elizabeth-hinton |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110222104/http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/elizabeth-hinton |archive-date=2018-01-10 |access-date=2018-01-23 |website=history.fas.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>

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'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/books/review/called-to-rise-david-brown-policing-the-black-man-paul-butler.html|title=Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing|last=Hinton|first=Elizabeth|date=2017-07-26|work=The New York Times. nytimes.com|access-date=2018-01-23|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071401/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/books/review/called-to-rise-david-brown-policing-the-black-man-paul-butler.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ''Los Angeles Times''.<ref name="Gale" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hinton-protests-1968-20160715-snap-story.html|title=How not to handle protests? Look to the 1960s|last=Hinton|first=Elizabeth|date=2016-07-15|website=Los Angeles Times. latimes.com|access-date=2018-01-23|archive-date=2018-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124135556/http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hinton-protests-1968-20160715-snap-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref name="The New York Times 2016">{{cite web | title='From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,' by Elizabeth Hinton | website=The New York Times | date=2016-05-29 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime-by-elizabeth-hinton.html | access-date=2019-01-05 | archive-date=2019-04-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406021423/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime-by-elizabeth-hinton.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

Her latest book, ''America on Fire'', examines the social and political history of localized uprisings, riots, and protests around issues of police violence in minor and major cities across the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schuessler |first=Jennifer |date=2021-05-12 |title=Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/arts/elizabeth-hinton-america-on-fire.html |access-date=2025-03-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Hinton served as PhD advisor for poet and scholar Jackie Wang.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stallard |first1=Natasha |title=Jackie Wang |url=https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2020/talks/jackie-wang |website=Tank Magazine |access-date=22 October 2022 |date=23 May 2018}}</ref>

== Works == * ''America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s'', New York: Liveright, 2021. {{ISBN|9781631498909}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Joseph |first=Peniel E. |author-link=Peniel Joseph |title=Recasting 'Riots' as Black Rebellions |date=May 18, 2021 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/books/review/america-on-fire-elizabeth-hinton.html |newspaper=The New York Times Book Review}}</ref> * ''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}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime-by-elizabeth-hinton.html|title='From the war on poverty to the War on Crime,' by Elizabeth Hinton|last=Perry|first=Imani|date=2016-05-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-23|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124135556/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime-by-elizabeth-hinton.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/19/from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime-review-elizabeth-hinton|title=From the war on poverty to the War on Crime review – disturbing history|last=Thrasher|first=Steven W.|date=2016-04-19|website=The Guardian|access-date=2018-01-23|archive-date=2018-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071600/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/19/from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime-review-elizabeth-hinton|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/turn-left-get-shot/#!|last=Kumar|first=Priyanka|date=2016-09-24|title=Turn Left or Get Shot|work=Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org|access-date=2018-01-23|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124070846/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/turn-left-get-shot/#!|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bostonreview.net/us/kelly-lytle-hernandez-elizabeth-hinton-war-poverty-war-crime|title=How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth|last=Hernández|first=Kelly Lytle|authorlink=Kelly Lytle Hernandez|date=2016-10-10|website=Boston Review|access-date=2018-01-23|archive-date=2018-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071645/http://bostonreview.net/us/kelly-lytle-hernandez-elizabeth-hinton-war-poverty-war-crime|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://history.fas.harvard.edu/news/elizabeth-hinton-has-been-awarded-phi-beta-kappa-2017-ralph-waldo-emerson-award |title= Elizabeth Hinton has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa 2017 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award |work= Harvard University {{!}} History Department |date= October 3, 2017 |access-date= December 12, 2023 |archive-date= December 12, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231212143019/https://history.fas.harvard.edu/news/elizabeth-hinton-has-been-awarded-phi-beta-kappa-2017-ralph-waldo-emerson-award |url-status=live}}</ref> * Co-edited with Manning Marable, ''The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction'', New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. {{ISBN|9781403977779}}<ref name="Gale"/>

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== External links == * [https://law.yale.edu/elizabeth-k-hinton Official website at Yale Law School] * [https://www.aaihs.org/from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime-an-interview-with-elizabeth-hinton/ Interview with Elizabeth Hinton], July 30, 2016, African American Intellectual History Society * {{cite web |url=https://www.thirteen.org/openmind/the-law/the-carceral-states-of-america/5550/|title=The Carceral States of America |last1=Heffner |first1=Alexander |last2=Elizabeth |first2=Hinton |date=October 8, 2016 |website= The Open Mind, Thirteen |access-date=December 26, 2018}}

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