Martha Hodes's Teaching and Research InterestsResearch Interests:
My research interests encompass the 19th-century United States, the history of racial classification, the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the history of gender. I am interested in exploring historical questions from different geographical perspectives, from local and regional to national and transnational.
Teaching Interests:
My graduate courses include "Race, Civil War and Reconstruction," "Transnational Constructions of Race," and "Recreating Lives," the last intended for students whose research includes piecing together the lives of historical actors, whether well-known or obscure. On the undergraduate level, my courses include "Experiences of the Civil War" and "Race and Family Stories." I have a special interest in creative and experimental methods of writing history, including the craft of storytelling in the discipline of history; to that end, I regularly teach "Reading and Writing Experimental History."
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