[2][3] Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twentieth-century United States.
[4] Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan[5] Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at Columbia University in 2013.
[3] Before joining the Yale Faculty she was a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the University of Michigan Society of Fellows.
She has contributed articles and op-ed pieces to periodicals including The Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, The New York Times,[7] and the Los Angeles Times.
[9] Hinton served as PhD advisor for poet and scholar Jackie Wang.