Faculty

Peter James Hudson
Assistant Professor of History

PhD, New York University, 2007

Twentieth-century United States; history of capitalism; race and US imperialism; social and cultural history of the African diaspora.

Telephone:  615-322-4734
Email:  peter.hudson@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: On leave 2012-2013
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 focuses on the history of capitalism, the history of American imperialism, and the history of the Africa diaspora in North America. He is currently completing a manuscript, titled Dark Finance: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873-1933, which examines the political and economic history of US banking and financial institutions in the Caribbean. Hudson has recently published “Imperial Designs: The Royal Bank of Canada in the Caribbean,” in Race & Class: A Journal on Racism, Empire and Globalisation; “Germaine, Evangeline, and other ‘Negro Girls,’” in Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism, and “The National City Bank and Haiti, 1909-1922,” in Radical History Review. Hudson is also the editor of the digital history resource The Public Archive: history beyond the headlines.

Courses Taught:
HIST 165 Foreign Expansion of American Banking
HIST 268 Black New York
HIST 288W Blacks and Money
HIST 286b U.S. and Caribbean Encounters
HIST 383 Race and the History of Capitalism