Elizabeth Hinton
Elizabeth Hinton is an American historian and Professor in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twentieth-century United States.Life
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at Columbia University in 2013. She was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
She has contributed articles and op-ed pieces to periodicals including the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
Hinton's 2016 book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime examines the history and modern-day issues in regard to the intertwined relationship between crime and poverty. She argues that this relationship goes farther back than one would think, such as anti-delinquency acts and the "War on Crime" in the Johnson Administration, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974.Works
