Elizabeth Hinton

Elizabeth Hinton is an assistant professor of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Hinton's research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twenty-century United States. Her current scholarship considers the transformation of domestic social programs and urban policing after the Civil Rights Movement.

Before joining the Harvard faculty, Hinton spent two years as 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. A Ford Foundation Fellow, Hinton completed her PhD in United States History from Columbia University in 2012.

Hinton's articles and op-eds can be found in the pages of the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, and Time. She also coedited The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction with the late historian Manning Marable.