Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Graham Russell Gao Hodges was born to Reverend Graham Rushing Hodges (1915–2004) and Elsie Russell (1916–2000). His siblings include Janet, Mary and Judy.[1][2][3] Hodges is the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University and in 2006–07 was a Distinguished Fulbright Professor of History at Beijing University.[4] He received a BA in 1973 and an MA in 1974 from City College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. in early American history from New York University in 1982. Hodges, who once worked as a cab driver in New York City, has published works such as TAXI! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver.[5][6][7]

Selected publications

• Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004)[8][9][10][11]
• Ed., Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
• Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)[12]
• Slavery, Freedom, and Culture (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
• Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey (Madison House, 1997)
• The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996)
• "Pretends to be Free": Fugitive Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (Garland Publishing Company, 1994)
• Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White (Madison House Publishers, 1993)
• The New York City Cartmen, 1650-1860 (New York University Press, 1986)
• Series ed., Studies in African American History and Culture, 106 vols. to date (Garland Publishing Company)
• Ed., Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
• David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture; 2010)[13][14][15]

More than 100 short reviews and 13 review essays in Reviews in American History, Journal of Urban History, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Slavery and Abolition.

References

1. Hodges, Graham Russell Gao (2005-10-12). Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-7601-5.
2. "Hodges (Rev. Graham R.) Papers, ca. 1920.; 1952-2003". lib.usm.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
3. Hodges, Graham Russell (September 2012). New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-2461-3.
4. "Faculty profile". Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
5. "Curb Job (Published 2007)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-05-31.
6. "Hailing the History of New York's Yellow Cabs". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
7. Hood, Clifton (2008). "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. By Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–801–88554–9". Business History Review. 82 (2): 401–403. doi:10.1017/S0007680500062978. JSTOR 40539010.
8. Corliss, Richard (29 January 2005). "Anna May Wong Did It Right". Time.
9. Gottlieb, Robert (13 January 2005). "Orientally Yours". New York Review of Books.
10. Camhi, Leslie (11 January 2004). "FILM; A Dragon Lady and a Quiet Cultural Warrior". The New York Times.
11. Wang, Yiman (Fall 2007). "Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend". Labour. No. 60. pp. 311–313. ProQuest 218790959.
12. Riordan, Liam (May 2000), Review of Hodges, Graham Russell, Root & Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863, H-SHEAR, H-Review, retrieved 2019-07-15
13. "Book Excerpt of 'David Ruggles' by Graham Hodges". Wall Street Journal. 25 March 2010.
14. "Winch on Hodges, 'David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City' | H-SHEAR | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
15. Alyssa (2010-10-27). "Interview: Graham Russell Gao Hodges". UNC Press Blog. Retrieved 2019-07-15.