Deploying the methodologies and literatures of Black Studies, political economy, and history, my research examines the long histories of Black dispossession under capitalism, and of Black resistance to capitalist dispossession.

Selected essays, articles, and reviews

The Brazen White Sign of the Dollar: Monetary Narrative, Imperial Crisis, and Black Revolt, Delinking and Global Reparations: Alternative Perspectives on the Socio-Ecological Crisis, Kai Koddenbrock and Ndongo Sylla Samba, Editors (transcript Verlag, 2025), 107-126
https://www.transcript-publishing.com/search?sSearch=delinking

Hudson, P. J. (2024). Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica, by Jovan Scott Lewis. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 98(1-2), 155-156. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09801012

Hudson, P. J. 2023. History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism. Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism 27 (3): 95-116. doi: muse.jhu.edu/article/915542

Horan, C., Hudson, P. J., Koehler, M., Ludewig, J., Thomas, A., & Yates, A. 2022. Built Orders of Finance, Risk, and Racial Capitalism. Architectural Theory Review, 26(1), 213–234. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2022.2112829

Aston, J., Barker, H., Durepos, G., Garrett-Scott, S., Hudson, P. J., Kwolek-Folland, A., … Yeager, M. (2022). Take nothing for granted: Expanding the conversation about business, gender, and feminism. Business History, 66(1), 93–106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2022.2123470

Hudson, P. J. 2021. Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti. Boston Review. Available: https://bostonreview.net/articles/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/

Hudson, P. J. and J. Pierre. 2021. Haiti: On Interventions and Occupations. Black Agenda Report. Available: https://www.blackagendareport.com/haiti-interventions-and-occupations

Hudson, P. J. 2021. On Anarchism and the Black Revolution. The Black Agenda Review/Black Agenda Report. Available: https://www.blackagendareport.com/review-anarchism-and-black-revolution

Hudson, P. J. 2020. Montreal 1968 and the Last Colonial Generation. Small Axe 24 (3): 195–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749878

Hudson, P. J. 2020. Capitalism. Keywords for Caribbean Studies. Available: http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/keywords/2020/11/22/capitalism/

Hudson, P. J. 2020. Currency, Colonialism, and Monetary History from Below. Just Money. Available: https://justmoney.org/p-hudson-currency-colonialism-and-monetary-history-from-below/

Hudson, P. J. 2020. Rogue Bankers, Black Radicalism, and the Caribbean History of Racial Capitalism. Small Axe 24 (2): 197–207. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604610

Hudson, P. J. 2019. Representing Haiti. SX Salon. Available: http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/discussions/representing-haiti

Hudson, P. J. 2017. Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023

Association of Caribbean Historians, Elsa Goveia Prize, Honorable Mention for Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, 2019.