About

Hi, I’m Hudson.

I am a writer, researcher, and editor.

I am currently a researcher for the PBS genealogy series Finding Your Roots. I recently completed my PhD in geography at Rutgers, where I wrote a dissertation on the history of Khao I Dang refugee camp in Thailand and UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency. I am now writing a book on Khao I Dang and developing a related oral history collection. Before my doctoral study at Rutgers, I completed an interdisciplinary master’s degree at NYU, a BA in geography at Ohio State, and spent an academic year in Canada on a Fulbright grant. My first book, Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life, which I co-edited with Asher Ghertner and Daniel Goldstein, was published by Duke University Press in 2020.

I live in New York, where I am also a visual artist and part-time typewriter technician.