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Elizabeth Kai Hinton
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| Born | June 26, 1983 |
| Education | New York University (B.A., 2005) Columbia University (M.A., 2007; M.Phil, 2008; Ph.D., 2013) |
| Awards | Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation |
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| Institutions | Harvard University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Foner |
| Other academic advisors | Heather Ann Thompson |
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. 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.
Life
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. Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at Columbia University in 2013. 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. 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, and the Los Angeles Times.
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.
Hinton served as PhD advisor for poet and scholar Jackie Wang.
Works
- 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,
- Co-edited with Manning Marable, The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN: 9781403977779
