Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Graham Russell Gao Hodges was born to Reverend Graham Rushing Hodges (1915–2004) and Elsie Russell (1916–2000). His siblings include Janet, Mary and Judy.^[1][2][3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5][6][7]

• Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004)^{[8][9][10][11]}
• Ed., Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
• Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)^[12]
• Slavery, Freedom, and Culture (M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
• Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey (Madison House, 1997)
• The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996)
• "Pretends to be Free": Fugitive Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey (Garland Publishing Company, 1994)
• Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White (Madison House Publishers, 1993)
• The New York City Cartmen, 1650-1860 (New York University Press, 1986)
• Series ed., Studies in African American History and Culture, 106 vols. to date (Garland Publishing Company)
• Ed., Robert Roberts's House Servant's Directory (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
• David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture; 2010)^[13][14][15]

More than 100 short reviews and 13 review essays in Reviews in American History, Journal of Urban History, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Slavery and Abolition.