Elizabeth Hinton

Elizabeth Hinton

Fellow: Awarded 2024
Field of Study: U.S. History

Competition: US & Canada

Elizabeth Hinton is a historian of American inequality who is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on policing and mass incarceration. Hinton’s past and current scholarship provides a deeper grasp of the persistence of poverty, urban violence, and racial inequality in the United States. She is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Law at Yale University and Yale Law School. Hinton is the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press, 2016), which received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion in the 1960s (Liveright, 2021), which was award the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Both of Hinton’s books were named New York Times Notable Books. In addition to the Guggenheim Foundation, Hinton’s research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation. Her articles and op-eds can be found in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Nature, Science, The American Historical Review, and TIME.

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