Martha Hodes
Hodes in 2016
Born	(1958-06-12)June 12, 1958 (age 67)
Academic background
Education	BA, 1980,Bowdoin College MA, 1984,Harvard University PhD, 1987,Princeton University
Thesis	Sex across the color line: white women and black men in the nineteenth-century American South
Academic work
Institutions	New York University

Martha Elizabeth Hodes (born June 12, 1958) is an American historian. She is a professor of History atNew York University, and the author of several books. She won theLincoln Prize in 2016.^[1]

Hodes was born on June 12, 1958.^[2] At the age of 12, she was taken hostage with her sister and hundreds of other people as part of the hijacking ofTWA Flight 741 in September 1970. She and the rest of the hostages were eventually released.^[3]

She earned herBachelor of Arts degree fromBowdoin College, herMaster's degree fromHarvard University and her PhD fromPrinceton University.^[4]

• White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. Yale University Press, 1997.ISBN 978-0300077506
• The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.ISBN 978-0393330298
• Mourning Lincoln. Yale University Press, 2015.ISBN 978-0300219753
• My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering. Harper, 2023.ISBN 978-0062699817^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

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