Elizabeth Hinton

Elizabeth Kai Hinton
Born (1983-06-26) June 26, 1983 (age 41)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
AwardsRalph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation
Academic background
EducationNew York University (B.A., 2005)
Columbia University (M.A., 2007; M.Phil, 2008; Ph.D., 2013)
Doctoral advisorEric Foner
Other advisorsHeather Ann Thompson[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineAfrican and African American Studies
InstitutionsHarvard University
Yale University
Websitehttps://law.yale.edu/elizabeth-k-hinton

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.[2][3] 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.[4]

  1. ^ "Color and Incarceration". 8 August 2019. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  2. ^ Cummings, Mike (2020-09-16). "The new faces of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences". Yale News. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  3. ^ "Elizabeth Kai Hinton". Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2017. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2018-03-17.
  4. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022". Archived from the original on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-09-20.