Martha Hodes

Martha Hodes
Hodes in 2016
Born (1958-06-12) June 12, 1958 (age 66)
Academic background
EducationBA, 1980, Bowdoin College
MA, 1984, Harvard University
PhD, 1987, Princeton University
ThesisSex across the color line: white women and black men in the nineteenth-century American South
Academic work
InstitutionsNew York University

Martha Elizabeth Hodes (born June 12, 1958) is an American historian. She is a professor of History at New York University, and the author of several books. She won the Lincoln Prize in 2016.[1]

Early life and education

Hodes was born on June 12, 1958.[2] At the age of 12, she was taken hostage with her sister and hundreds of other people as part of the hijacking of TWA Flight 741 in September 1970. She and the rest of the hostages were eventually released.[3]

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowdoin College, her Master's degree from Harvard University and her PhD from Princeton University.[4]

Works

  • White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. Yale University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0300077506
  • The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0393330298
  • Mourning Lincoln. Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0300219753
  • My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering. Harper, 2023. ISBN 978-0062699817[5][6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ^ Cook, Doug (March 27, 2016). "Martha Hodes '80 Wins Prize for 'Mourning Lincoln'". dailysun.bowdoin.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  2. ^ "Hodes, Martha Elizabeth". id.loc.gov. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Hodes, Martha (2023-05-14). "Remembering My Hijacking". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  4. ^ "Martha Hodes". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  5. ^ "The Historian Who Lost Her Memory of a Hijacking". The New Republic. 2023-07-25. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  6. ^ "A Hijacked Plane, a Childhood Trauma Long Repressed". 2023-06-05. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  7. ^ Cole, Diane (2023-06-12). "'My Hijacking' Review: Shielded by Trauma". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  8. ^ ""My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering" by Martha Hodes". WAMC. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  9. ^ "Leaving Israel: A Hijacking Victim Tries to Remember". Haaretz. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
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