Draft:Clifton Hood
American historian specializing in urban history
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Clifton Hood is an American historian specializing in urban history,[1] particularly the development of New York City, mass transit systems, and social elites.[2] He has served as a professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is recognized for his scholarship on the history of the New York City subway system urban development.[2][3][4]
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Early life and education
Hood received his undergraduate education at Washington University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1976,[2][3] graduating summa cum laude.[5] He later pursued graduate studies at Columbia University, completing a Master of Arts in 1979[2][3], a Master of Philosophy in 1980, and a Doctor of Philosophy in U.S. history in 1986.[2][3][4]
Career
Academic career
Hood began his academic career as an instructor of history at Columbia University in 1981. He later worked as Assistant Director and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College (City University of New York) from 1987 to 1992.[4]
In 1992, he joined Hobart and William Smith Colleges as a member of the history faculty.[6][7] Over the course of his career, he held several academic positions, including Assistant Professor.[6] Hood has taught courses in American urban history, environmental history, ethnicity and immigration, and the history of New York City, with a focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[6][7]
International teaching and fellowships
In 2001, Hood served as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Seoul National University[8] and Yonsei University in South Korea.[9]
Research and scholarship
Hood’s research focuses on American urban history, including elites, transportation systems, historical memory, and identity, with particular emphasis on New York City. His work has been published in academic journals such as Journal of Urban History[10], Journal of Social History[10], and Reviews in American History. [10]
Media and public engagement
Hood has participated in historical documentaries and media programs, including PBS’s American Experience [11], the History Channel, and other broadcast platforms. He has also contributed opinion and public history articles to publications such as The New York Times [12] and New York Daily News.[13]
Awards and honors
Hood has received several academic and professional recognitions, including:
- Manuscript Award, New York State Historical Association (1993), for 722 Miles [14][15]
He has also received fellowships and grants from institutions such as the Fulbright Program, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History[16], and the Center for Mark Twain Studies. [17]
Books
- 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York (Simon & Schuster, 1993; later editions by Johns Hopkins University Press) [3][14]
- In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City’s Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (Columbia University Press, 2016) [3][14][18]
Selected publications
Hood has authored numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on urban history, transportation, and social elites. Some of them are as follows:
- “A Dynamic Businessman’s Aristocracy: the 1890s,” excerpted from In Pursuit of Privilege, and “The Subway and the City,” excerpted from 722 Miles, in The American Urban Reader: History and Theory, 2nd ed., ed. Steven H. Corey and Lisa Krissoff Boehm (New York: Routledge, 2020). [3][18]
- “Counting Who Counts: Method and Findings of a Statistical Analysis of Elites in the New York Region, 1947.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 55 (Fall 2014): 57-68. [19]
- “The Subway and the City,” excerpted from 722 Miles, in The American Urban Reader: History and Theory, ed. Steven H. Corey and Lisa Krissoff Boehm (New York: Routledge, 2010).[3]
- Foreword, to Paul Shaw, Helvetica and the New York Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story (New York: Blue Pencil Editions, 2009; trade ed., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011).
- “An Unusable Past: Urban Elites, New York City’s Evacuation Day, and the Transformations of Memory Culture.” Journal of Social History 37 (Summer 2004): 883-913.[20]
- “The Subway at 100.” New-York Journal of American History 5 (Spring 2004): 66-92. [21]
- “Journeying to `Old New York’: Elite New Yorkers and Their Invention of an Idealized City History in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Journal of Urban History 28 (September 2002): 699-716. [22]
- “In Retrospect: Robert G. Albion’s The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860.” Reviews in American History 27 (June 1999): 171-79. [23]
- "The Fragmented Past: Archives in New York City, 1804-1996:” 147-156, in Archives and the Metropolis: Papers Delivered at the `Archives and the Metropolis’ Conference, 11-13 July 1996, ed. by M.V. Roberts (London, 1998). [24]