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Jack Hodgson

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Jack Hodgson is a British historian, academic, and writer who specializes in the history of children and childhood in the United States and Spain. Hodgson's work focuses particularly on children's political activism and experiences of warfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Jack Hodgson
Born1996
💼 Occupation
Historian

Career[edit]

Hodgson completed his BA (Hons) and MA at Teesside University and then completed his PhD at Northumbria University under the supervision of Joe Street and Tony Badger. Hodgson was Badger's 37th and final PhD student before his retirement as a professor.[1] His thesis was titled "Californians and others: marginalised children and the Golden State during the Great Depression." The fifth chapter of the thesis implicated the state of California in covering up the circumstances of children's deaths in custody at Whittier State School.[2]

Hodgson has subsequently lectured at Northumbria University and the University of Roehampton.[3] He currently serves as an ECR Board Member of the journal History: The Journal of the Historical Association.[4][5] In 2022 he was awarded the Scottish Association for the Study of America's Ellen Craft Prize.[6]

Journalism[edit]

Hodgson's work has appeared in major news outlets including Business Insider, Newsday, the San Antonio Express-News and the Washington Post.[7][8][9][10]

In January 2020 Hodgson criticized U.S. Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin in the Washington Post over his comments about climate activist Greta Thunberg's age and education.[11] Multiple academics cited Hodgson's article to argue that there was such as thing as juvenile ageism and discrimination against young people in elements of society and the pattern of belittlement of youth activists by adult politicians.[12][13] In January 2022 Hodgson criticized New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams for their dismissive response to student protests in New York schools over a lack of measures to combat rising Covid-19 transmission.[14] In May 2022 Hodgson described the U.S. Supreme Court as a front for "Christian white nationalist minority rule" in the magazine New Politics after the leaked draft ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.[15] In November 2022, Hodgson's essay in the Washington Post accused U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh of hypocrisy over his condemning child labor abroad but not taking action over child labor in U.S. agriculture, which Hodgson's essay traced back the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.[16]

Academic publications[edit]

Hodgson's work includes cases studies of children's history such as analysis of Harry Eisman and other children's Communist activism as part of the Young Pioneers of America and the theory of researching and writing about the history of childhood. He advocates for historians to use children's drawings in their research in order to incorporate more youthful perspectives into the historical narrative.[4][17][18][19]

Journal articles[edit]

  • J. Hodgson, "Californians and Others: Children's Health, Nutrition, and Welfare in Depression-era Migrant Camps." Journal of American Studies (2022). [20]
  • J. Hodgson, "The Transnational Defence of Mexican American Children's Rights in Depression-era California." Comparative American Studies 19:2-3 (2022): 165-181.[21]
  • J. Hodgson, "From the Bronx to Stalingrad: Harry Eisman and the Young Pioneers of America in New York City." New York History 103:1 (2022): 68-84.[17]
  • J. Hodgson, "Accessing children's historical experiences through their art: four drawings of aerial warfare from the Spanish Civil War." Rethinking History 25:2 (2021): 145-165.[18]

Book reviews[edit]

  • J. Hodgson, "Review: "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener." History: The Journal of the Historical Association 106:373 (2021): 865-866.[22]
  • J. Hodgson, "Review: "Lynne Curry, Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870–2000." Journal of American Studies 55:3 (2021): 734-736.[23]
  • J. Hodgson, "Review: A brief history of schooling in the United States: from pre-colonial times to the present." History of Education 50:1 (2021): 134-136.[24]

References[edit]

  1. Ward, Brian (2021–2022). "Postgraduate News". Northumbria University American Studies Newsletter. p. 7.CS1 maint: Date format (link)
  2. Hodgson, Jack David (2021-08-31). Californians and others: marginalised children and the Golden State during the Great Depression (doctoral thesis). Northumbria University.
  3. "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "About". History Journal. 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  5. "Editorial Board". History - Wiley Online Library.
  6. "Scottish Association for the Study of America". www.scotamstudies.org. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  7. Hodgson, Jack. "I'm a former camp director. Here's why we shouldn't get too excited about the CDC report showing how Maine camps hosted 1,000 kids and counselors with only three coronavirus cases". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  8. "Students are protesting COVID policies — and the adults who won't listen to them". Newsday. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  9. Hodgson, Jack (2020-06-21). "A summer without camp is more than a bummer". mySA. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  10. "Perspective | A summer without camp is more than a bummer". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  11. "Perspective | Belittling activists like Greta Thunberg because they are young is a mistake". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  12. Hülsen-Esch, Andrea (2021-11-22). Cultural Perspectives on Aging: A Different Approach to Old Age and Aging. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-068311-0. Search this book on
  13. Colantonio-Yurko, Kathleen; Boehm, Shelby; Olmstead, Kathleen (2022-05-04). "Girls Rising: Addressing Female Activist Characters in YA Literature through Critical Literacy". The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas. 95 (3): 136–141. doi:10.1080/00098655.2022.2054922. ISSN 0009-8655. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  14. "Perspective | Students are protesting covid policies — and the adults who won't listen to them". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  15. newpolitics (2022-05-09). "The US Supreme Court is Now a Front for Christian Nationalist Minority Rule". New Politics. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  16. Hodgson, Jack (November 1, 2022). "Child labor remains a problem in the United States". The Washington Post.
  17. 17.0 17.1 Hodgson, Jack (2022). "From the Bronx to Stalingrad: Harry Eisman and the Young Pioneers of America in New York City". New York History. 103 (1): 68–84. doi:10.1353/nyh.2022.0008. ISSN 2328-8132. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  18. 18.0 18.1 Hodgson, Jack (2021-04-03). "Accessing children's historical experiences through their art: four drawings of aerial warfare from the Spanish Civil War". Rethinking History. 25 (2): 145–165. doi:10.1080/13642529.2021.1928393. ISSN 1364-2529. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  19. "Children's art as historical evidence: drawings from the Spanish Civil War". Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  20. Hodgson, Jack (n.d.). "Californians and Others: Children's Health, Nutrition, and Welfare in Depression-Era Migrant Camps". Journal of American Studies: 1–23. doi:10.1017/S0021875822000287. ISSN 0021-8758.
  21. Hodgson, Jack (2022-07-03). "The Transnational Defence of Mexican American Children's Rights in Depression-era California". Comparative American Studies. 19 (2–3): 165–181. doi:10.1080/14775700.2022.2128247. ISSN 1477-5700. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  22. Hodgson, Jack (December 2021). "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. By MikeDavis and JonWiener. Verso. 2020. xii + 788pp. £14.99". History. 106 (373): 865–866. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.13230. ISSN 0018-2648. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  23. Hodgson, Jack (July 2021). "Lynne Curry, Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870–2000 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, £54.99). Pp. ix + 197. isbn 978 3 0302 4688 4". Journal of American Studies. 55 (3): 734–736. doi:10.1017/S0021875821000414. ISSN 0021-8758. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  24. Hodgson, Jack (2021-01-02). "A brief history of schooling in the United States: from pre-colonial times to the present". History of Education. 50 (1): 134–136. doi:10.1080/0046760X.2020.1715491. ISSN 0046-760X. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)


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