Faculty

Peter James Hudson
Assistant Professor of History

PhD, New York University, 2007

Modern U.S. cultural, economic, and political history in transnational context; imperial histories of the Caribbean; the cultural history of the African Diaspora in North America; race, political economy and histories of finance

Telephone:  615-322-4734
Email:  peter.hudson@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: T, R 11:30-12:30, by apppointment
Office: 103 Benson Hall

Peter James Hudson is an Assistant Professor of History who received his PhD in American Studies from New York University in 2007. His research interests focus on the cultural and political-economic history of American empire and the cultural history of the African diaspora in North America. He is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Dark Finance: An Unofficial History of Wall Street, American Empire, and the Caribbean, 1889-1929 that explores the political and economic history of US banking and financial institutions in the Caribbean while researching Blacks and Money, a cultural history of money and finance in the African diaspora. Before joining Vanderbilt, Hudson was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and taught in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Buffalo.

Courses Taught: HIST 292 02 Blacks and Money

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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