Adam Hochschild

Lecturer

Continuing Lecturer

Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ”Hoch” as in ”spoke”; ”schild” as in ”build”) is the author of ten  books; Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes is his most recent.  Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, appeared in 2016. Of his earlier books, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels and the more recent Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays collect some of the articles he has done in a lifetime of writing for newspapers and magazines. Earlier in his career, he was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” and a co-founder, editor, and writer at Mother Jones magazine. Links to recent articles of his appear below. He has received the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Historical Association and in 2014 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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The New York Times Book Review has featured Hochschild as the subject of its weekly “By the Book” interview. At the Graduate School of Journalism, former PBS NewsHour correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth interviewed Hochschild about his work (interview starts at 6:00 minutes into the video recording).  Hochschild has also been interviewed about his writing on the Congo by Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” and by Terry Gross of NPR’s “Fresh Air” about Spain in Our Hearts and about To End All Wars.  The text of a print interview with him about his body of work appears here, and his recent talks include one at the headquarters of Wikipedia.

             Recent articles by Adam Hochschild:

*Who’s to Blame? (New York Review of Books)

*The 1619 Project (New York Times Book Review)

*Midnight in the Statue Storage Vault (San Francisco Chronicle)

*Teaching Restorative Justice, One Hallway Fight at a Time (Mother Jones)

*When Museums Have Ugly Pasts (The Atlantic)

*When Mass Deportations Were Planned a Century Ago, One Man Got in the Way (New Yorker)

*Visiting Finland’s Prisons–and Ours (New York Review of Books)

*If You Think the First World War Began Senselessly, Consider How it Ended (New Yorker)

*A Nation of Guns (New York Review of Books)

*Rape of the Congo (New York Review of Books)

*Blood and Treasure in Eastern Congo (Mother Jones)

*Tarzan and Me (Tomdispatch.com)

*The Brick Master of Kerala (Mother Jones)

(Photo of Adam Hochschild by Barbi Reed)

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