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Dr Jack Hodgson

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Lecturer in History, the University of Roehampton, United Kingdom

Email: jack.hodgson@roehampton.ac.uk

Profile

Jack Hodgson is a lecturer in history at the University of Roehampton. He works on the history of childhood and youth in the United States, with a particular focusing on children's relationships with both the law and politics. His published works include studies of child activism in the Communist Party USA and an examination of the juvenile death penalty in the United States. 

Research

Publications

  • J. Hodgson, Young Reds in the Big Apple: The New York Young Pioneers of America, 1923-1934 (Fordham University Press, 2024) 
  • J. Hodgson, "‘They’re Not Children Anymore’: Juveniles as Adult Defendants in US Criminal Justice, 1786–2000" in M. Cannon & L. Tisdall, eds, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z (University of London Press, 2024)
  • J. Hodgson, "Accessing children's Historical experiences through their art: four drawings from the Spanish Civil War" Rethinking History 25, no.2 (2021), 145-165. 

Expertise

The history of childhood, children's experiences of war, the history of child activism, and children's relationship with the Constitution in the United States.
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