AUTHOR

Christopher Hodson

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Chris Hodson is a historian of early America, early modern France, and the age of revolutions in the wider Atlantic world. A graduate of Northwestern University (PhD., 2004) and Utah State University (MA, 1999, BA, 1998), he has held positions at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies in Philadelphia, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, and at BYU, where he has taught since 2007. He is also a volunteer instructor for the Utah Prison Education Project and a committed advocate for expanding access to higher education for incarcerated people. Chris is the author of The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals, edited volumes, and newspapers including the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News. He currently serves on the editorial board of Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life.