Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Graham Russell Gao Hodges was born to Reverend Graham Rushing Hodges and Elsie Russell. His siblings include Janet, Mary and Judy. Hodges is the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University and in 2006–07 was a Distinguished Fulbright Professor of History at Beijing University. He received a BA in 1973 and an MA in 1974 from City College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. in early American history from New York University in 1982. Hodges, who once worked as a cab driver in New York City, has published works such as ''TAXI! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver.''
Selected publications
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend- Ed., Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 Slavery, Freedom, and Culture Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution "Pretends to be Free": Fugitive Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White
- Series ed., Studies in African American History and Culture, 106 vols. to date
- Ed., Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City