Martha Hodes
{{short description|American historian (born 1958)}}
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| education = BA, 1980, Bowdoin College
MA, 1984, Harvard University
PhD, 1987, Princeton University
| thesis_title = Sex across the color line: white women and black men in the nineteenth-century American South
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| workplaces = New York University
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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.{{cite web |last1=Cook |first1=Doug |title=Martha Hodes '80 Wins Prize for 'Mourning Lincoln' |url=https://dailysun.bowdoin.edu/2016/03/martha-hodes-80-wins-major-prize-for-mourning-lincoln/ |website=dailysun.bowdoin.edu |access-date=December 21, 2020 |date=March 27, 2016}}
Early life and education
Hodes was born on June 12, 1958.{{cite web |title=Hodes, Martha Elizabeth |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91018678.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=December 21, 2020}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Hodes |first=Martha |date=2023-05-14 |title=Remembering My Hijacking |language=en-US |work=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/remembering-my-hijacking |access-date=2023-08-19 |issn=0028-792X}}
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowdoin College, her Master's degree from Harvard University and her PhD from Princeton University.{{cite web |title=Martha Hodes |url=https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/martha-hodes.html |website=as.nyu.edu |access-date=December 21, 2020}}
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}}{{Cite news |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |last5= |first5= |last6= |first6= |last7= |first7= |last8= |first8= |last9= |first9= |date=2023-07-25 |title=The Historian Who Lost Her Memory of a Hijacking |work=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/173135/historian-lost-memory-hijacking-martha-hodes-book-review |access-date=2023-08-19 |issn=0028-6583}}{{Cite news |date=2023-06-05 |title=A Hijacked Plane, a Childhood Trauma Long Repressed |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/books/review/my-hijacking-martha-hodes.html |access-date=2023-08-19}}{{Cite news |last=Cole |first=Diane |date=2023-06-12 |title=‘My Hijacking’ Review: Shielded by Trauma |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-hijacking-review-shielded-by-trauma-e00f2e99 |access-date=2023-08-19 |issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite web |title="My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering" by Martha Hodes |url=https://www.wamc.org/podcast/the-roundtable/2023-07-03/my-hijacking-a-personal-history-of-forgetting-and-remembering-by-martha-hodes |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=WAMC |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=Leaving Israel: A Hijacking Victim Tries to Remember |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-19/ty-article-magazine/.premium/leaving-israel-a-hijacking-victim-tries-to-remember/00000189-5fa5-d481-afbd-5fb739e70000 |access-date=2023-08-19}}
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