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]
^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. JSTOR40539010.