Graham R. Hodges
Employment:
Fulbright Distinguished Professor in American History
George Dorland Langdon, Jr.
University, 2005-
Beijing University, 2006-07
Professor of History, Department of History, Colgate
Professor of History, Department of History, Colgate University, 1996Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Foreign Affairs College, Beijing China, 1998
Associate Professor, Department of History, Colgate University, 1990-1996.
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Colgate University, 1986-1990.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History,
University of Utah, 1984-86.
Associate Editor and Adjunct Assistant Professor, The William Livingston Papers,
Department of History, New York University 1982-1984.
Education:
Ph.D. in American History at New York University, 1982. Bayrd Still Award for best
dissertation, Department of History, New York University, 1982.
M. A. in American Studies, City College of New York, 1974.
B. A. in American Literature, City College of New York, 1973.
Books:
Monographs:
The New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850, New York: New York University Press,
1986.
Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey,
1660-1860, Madison House Publishers, 1997.
Slavery, Freedom & Culture Among Early American Workers. Armonk. N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004.
Book Projects Under Contract:
David Ruggles: Black Apostle of Freedom. Under Contract with University of North
Carolina Press.
Due January 1, 2007
Taxi! A Cultural History of the New York City Cabdriver. Under Contract with Johns
Hopkins University Press, In press; forthcoming February 2007.
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Freedom’s Tangled Web: The Strange Story of Three Revolutionary Patriots: Thomas
Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Agrippa Hull.” Co-Authored with Gary Nash. Basic
Books, due date October 1, 2006; forthcoming Fall 2007.
Chains and Freedom: the Life and Adventure of Peter Wheeler: A Colored Man Yet Living,
A Slave in Chains, A Sailor in the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross edited and with an
introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
forthcoming 2008.
Edited Books:
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman: The Narrative of Austin Steward.
Edited with an Introduction by Graham Russell Hodges. Syracuse: Syracuse University
Press, 2002.
Robert Roberts’s House Servant’s Directory. Edited with an Introduction by Graham
Russell Hodges. Armonk. N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution,
edited with an introduction by Graham Hodges, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. with
the New England Historic Genealogical Association, 1996. Routledge, 2002
An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes. By
Henri Gregoire, edited with an introduction by Graham Hodges. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.
Sharpe, Inc., 1996.
“Pretends to be Free” : Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary
New York and New Jersey, Edited with an Introduction by Graham Russell Hodges and
Alan E. Brown. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994; Routledge Publishers, 2002.
Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White, Edited with
an Introduction by Graham Russell Hodges. Madison, Wisconsin: Madison House
Publishers, 1993. Palgrave Pub lishers, 2002
Recollections of an Ex-Cartman, by Isaac Lyon, Edited with an introduction by Graham
Russell Hodges, New York: New York Bound Press, 1983.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Liberty and Constraint: The Limits of Revolution in Slavery in New York, eds. Ira Berlin and
Leslie Harris, New York: The New Press, 2005, 91-111.
“Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century North America, 1701-1788,”
In Ronald H. Bayor, ed. Race
and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp.
21-41
“The Emergence of a
New Black Religious Identity in New York City and Eastern New Jersey,
1624-1807,” 13-41 in Myra B. Young Armstead, ed. Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in
the Hudson Valley (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003)
“The Pastor and the Prostitute: African Americans and Germans in Eighteenth-Century New York.”
in Sex. Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. ed. Martha Hodes, 60-72.
New York: New York University Press, 1999.
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"The Freemanship in New York City: 1648-1800," In
Authority and Resistance in Early New
York, Conrad E. Wright and William Pencak, eds, 225-46. New York: New-York Historical
Society, 1988.
"‘ Desirable Companions and Lovers’ : African Americans and Irish in New York’s Sixth Ward,
1830-1870," in The Irish of New York City, 107-24, 603-08 ed. by Ronald Bayor and Timothy
Meagher, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
"Black Revolt in Revolutionary New-York," in William Pencak and Paul Gilje, eds. New York City
in the Age of the Constitution New York: New York Historical Society, 1992, 20-48.
"The Cartmen of New York City.”
Mid-Hudson Regional Review 1:2 (Spring 1984), 79-82
Editorial Positions and Publications:
Advisory Editor, Oxford University Press African American Studies Resource Center, 2005Co Editorr, The Colonial World and the Young Nation.: The African American History
Reference Series, 4 vols. Oxford University Press, March 2006.
Editorial Board, Journal of the Early Republic, 2003Associate Editor, Dictionary of American History. 10 vols. New York: Scribners Books, 2003.
Responsible for 800 entries.
Associate Editor, Dictionary of American History Supplement. New York: Scribners Books, 1996.
Responsible for over 140 entries.
Associate Editor, William Livingston Papers, vols. 3 & 4, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University
Press, 1986, 1987.
Series Editor, Routledge Publishers. Studies in African-American History and Culture, 1991-.
106 volumes published; 3 in production.
Series Editor, Crosscurrents in African American History, Routledge. 1995-2003. 15 books
published;
Review Essays
" The Decline and Fall of Artisan Republicanism in Antebellum New York City: Views
from the Street and Workshop, " Journal of Urban History, 18:2 (February 1992), 211-221.
" Reconstructing Black Women's History in the Caribbean,” Journal of American Ethnic
History, 12:1 (1992), 101-06.
"Violence and Religion in the Black American Revolution,”
20:2 (1992), 157-63.
Reviews in American History,
“Paternalism in Mines, Mills, and Ports,” Labor History, 35:1 (Winter, 1994), 128-30.
“Gabriel’s Republican Rebellion,”
Reviews in American History, 22 (1994), 428-32.
“Flaneurs, Prostitutes and Historians: Sexual Commerce and Representation in the
Nineteenth-Century Metropolis,” Journal of Urban History, 23:4 (May 1997), 488-497.
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“In Retrospect: Richard B. Morris and Government and Labor in Early America (1946)
Reviews in American History 25:2 (June 1997)
“Early Modern Slavery in the 1990s,” Journal of American Ethnic History, (Fall, 1999),
67-71
“Means and Ends to Rural Rioting in Colonial New Jersey, “ Reviews in American History,
September 2000.
Short Book Reviews
(frequency in parenthesis): Agricultural History (1); America (2); American Historical
Review (3); Australasian Journal of American Studies (3); Biography (1); Civil War History
(2); Enterprise and Society (1); Ethnic and Racial Studies (2); Georgia Historical
Quarterly (1); Historian (2); History (2); International History Review (1); Journal of
American History (7); Journal of American Studies (2); Journal of the American Academy
of Religion (2); Industrial and Labor Relations Review (1); Journal of the Early Republic
(9); Labor History (3); Law and History Review (1); New York History (7) ); Niew West
Indie Guide (1); Slavery and Abolition (3); William & Mary Quarterly (3).
Encyclopedia Entries
The Colonial World and the Young Nation. The African American History Reference
Series, Oxford University Press, 2006. 46 entries.
American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 10 entries.
Encyclopedia of African American Life and Culture. New York: MacMillan, 1996. 9 entries
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: Garland Publishing. 1993. 6 entries
Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 6 entries.
Dictionary of American Biography, Supplements, 9, 10. New York: MacMillan, 1994. 2
entries.
Dictionary of American History, Supplement.New York: MacMillan, 1993, 16 entries.
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. 1-6. New York: Scribners, 1999-.2006, 27
entries.
MacMillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. New York: MacMillan, 1999. 5 entries
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. New York: MacMillan, 1999,
3 entries.
Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, New York: MacMillan, 2000.
2 major entries.
Significant Media Appearances
Slavery and the Making of America, PBS, 2005
The Making of Americans: the Chinese Experience. Bill Moyers, PBS, 2003
Slavery and New York’s African Burial Ground, BBC 2003
Then I’ll Be Free to fly Home, ETV Productions, Film and Radio, 1997, 2004.
Grants and Awards:
American Antiquarian Society, Short Term Fellowship, 1999
Gilder-Lehrrman Fellowship, 1999
American Council of Learned Societies, Major Grant, 1989-90.
New Jersey Historical Commission Grants, 1985, 1988
New York State Library Visiting Scholar, 1988-89..
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant, 1988.
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1989
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Conference Service:
Presentations, Comments and Chair
American Historical Association, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005
Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1995, 1997
New York Historical Association, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990. 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000;
program committee, 1997, 1999, 2000
Organization of American Historians, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2005.
Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999,
2001, 2002, 2003, 2005; Book Prize Committee and Chair, 1992-1994.
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