Christopher Hodson

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Current Classes (Spring 2008):

• None

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 examines the expulsion of fifteen thousand French-speaking, Catholic colonists from British Nova Scotia in 1755 and their subsequent dispersal to the Caribbean, the South Atlantic, and western Europe.  His next project, to be co-authored with Brett Rushforth of the College of William and Mary, is entitled Discovering Empire: The French Atlantic and the Making of Modern Imperialism.  Chris’s articles and reviews have appeared in several national and international journals, including Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early American Studies, and the William and Mary Quarterly.  He is the 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, UT, with his wife, Sarah, and their three children. 

Classes Taught:

• History 220: United States to 1877
• 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