Dr. Hodes holds a PhD in Humanities from York University and a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University. During his doctoral studies he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book, From India to Israel: Identity, Immigration and the Struggle for Religious Equality examines the creation of both India in 1947 and Israel in 1948, and the enormous migrations that accompanied the birth of those nations. He has served as a faculty member at SUNY Binghamton, Tulane University and Old Dominion University. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards including teaching awards from York University and Old Dominion University as well as prestigious international awards such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant and the awards to scholarly publications program grant. He is currently working on his second book entitled Partition: The Creation of India and Israel, Pakistan and Palestine. 

 

Dr. Hodes is one of the most highly awarded teachers at Texas Tech University. In the first ten years of his career at TTU he won 13 teaching awards. In 2022 alone he was awarded the Arts and Sciences students choice top faculty member, the ETA OMICRON NU professor of the month award, the Mortar Board apple polishing award and was included on the Phi Beta Kappa most influential teacher and mentor’s list. He is also deeply involved in study abroad. Every May he brings a group of students to India for two weeks to work with a nonprofit organization that helps restore water in villages that are experiencing water shortages. When the students return from that trip they are given a paid research position for a full year, where they are partnered with a faculty member and can do research in any major as long as it is connected to water conservation in some way.  Every June, he brings a group of students to Spain. They spend most of their time in Seville, but travel to Cordoba, Granda, and Toledo before spending the last three days in the beautiful city of Madrid.  For more information about those annual programs watch the videos below and get in contact with Dr. Hodes. 

 

 

 

 

Education

 

— Ph.D. in Humanities from York University

— Master of Arts in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University