Hoff is the former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University.
[7][8] She retired in 2001 and lives between Big Sky, Montana and New York City, as of 2003.
[5][2][4] Hoff received a Fulbright Award (1958 to 1959) for study at the University of Strasbourg.
[5] Historian Susan Kingsley Kent criticized Hoff's article, Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis (1994, Women's History Review), as it "breaks no new intellectual ground, but for anti-intellectualism, disingenuousness, and sheer incivility".
[8] She has also received the Vivian Paladin Award, and fellowships to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Radcliffe Institute, as well as a National Endowment of the Humanities research grant.