Elizabeth Hinton
Elizabeth Kai Hinton | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 26, 1983 |
| Awards | Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation |
| Academic background | |
| Education | New York University (B.A., 2005) Columbia University (M.A., 2007; M.Phil, 2008; Ph.D., 2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Foner |
| Other advisors | Heather Ann Thompson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | African and African American Studies |
| Institutions | Harvard University Yale University |
| Website | https://law.yale.edu/elizabeth-k-hinton |
Elizabeth Kai 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. 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.