Martha Elizabeth Hodes (born June 12, 1958) is an American historian. She is a professor of History at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

, and the author of several books. She won the

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in 2016.

Early life and education

Hodes was born on June 12, 1958. At the age of 12, she was taken hostage with her sister and hundreds of other people as part of the hijacking of TWA Flight 741 in September 1970. She and the rest of the hostages were eventually released. She earned her

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degree from

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, her

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from

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and her PhD from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

Works

* ''White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South.'' Yale University Press, 1997. * ''The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. * ''Mourning Lincoln''. Yale University Press, 2015. * ''My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering.'' Harper, 2023.

References

Living people 1958 births 21st-century American historians New York University faculty Lincoln Prize winners Harvard University alumni Princeton University alumni Bowdoin College alumni Hijacking survivors {{US-historian-stub