Biography

Christina J. Hodge is Associate Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University and a Museum Associate at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. She is an interdisciplinary museum anthropologist and historical archaeologist working in critical museum and heritage studies. Dr. Hodge teaches courses on Anthropology and Museum Studies, and she has also taught on Historical Archaeology and archaeological methods and theory. Her first book, Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America, was published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press. Her most recent research publication on Harvard is "'A Sharp White Background': Enslavement and Privilege at Eighteenth-Century Harvard College" in Historical Archaeology (2021). Her research program investigates university collections in order to expose hidden institutional and disciplinary histories, focusing on questions of personal identity, community memory, and provenance.

Dr. Hodge earned her PhD in Historical Archaeology and MA in Heritage Management from Boston University and her AB in Anthropology from Harvard University.

Her research and teaching interests include museum anthropology and museum studies, material culture studies,the historical ethnography and archaeology of early America,  social and cultural theory, and community history.