Christopher Hodson

M, W 9:00 - 10:00am, 11:00 - 12:00pm

Current Classes:

• Hist 294. Eighteenth-Century Revolutions: America, France, Haiti
• Hist 370. Colonial America to 1763

• History 220. United States to 1877
• Hist 294. Eighteenth-Century Revolutions: America, France, Haiti
• History 362. France and the Americas
• History 370. Colonial America to 1763
• History 390. Eighteenth-Century Revolutions: America, France, and Haiti
• History 490. Historical Research and Writing

Biography

Christopher Hodson specializes in colonial and Atlantic history, with an emphasis on the eighteenth-century French empire, comparative imperialism, and early modern diasporas. After earning his PhD. from Northwestern University in 2004, Chris spent two years as an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania. In 2007, he came to BYU, where he teaches both upper- and lower-division courses in the Department of History. He is currently completing his book manuscript, Refugees: The Worlds of the Acadian Diaspora, which will be published by Oxford University Press. His next project, to be co-authored with Brett Rushforth of the College of William and Mary, is entitled Discovering Empire: France and the Atlantic World from the Age of Columbus to the Rise of Napoleon. It will be published by Basic Books. Chris’s articles have appeared in several journals, including Early American Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, French Historical Studies, Outre-mers: révue d’histoire, and the William and Mary Quarterly. He is co-director (with Eric Hinderaker of the University of Utah) of the Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History (http://history.byu.edu/rmseah/). He lives in Springville, Utah, with his wife, Sarah, and their three children.