Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges is a Professor of History at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, affiliated with the College of Human Sciences and Humanities. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and specializes in labor history and urban class politics of the early 20th-century United States.

• Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

His research includes labor history, political history, and urban dynamics during national mobilization periods. He authored the book World War I and Urban Order: The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization and edited a Special Forum on the Red Scare in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He currently investigates the formative period of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

Dr. Hodges teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on 20th-century U.S. history and related topics. His scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed articles on urban class politics and editorial board service for historical journals.