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.

Book
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Selected essays, articles, and reviews
History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism, Small Axe 72 (November 2023), 95-116

Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti, Boston Review (9 December 2021): https://bostonreview.net/articles/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/

Haiti: On Interventions and Occupations, Black Agenda Report, August 4, 2021 (Co-written with Dr. Jemima Pierre): https://www.blackagendareport.com/haiti-interventions-and-occupations

On Anarchism and the Black Revolution, The Black Agenda Review/Black Agenda Report (March 31, 2021): https://www.blackagendareport.com/review-anarchism-and-black-revolution

Montreal 1968 and the Last Colonial Generation, Small Axe 63 (November 2020), 195-205

Capitalism, Keywords for Caribbean Studies, (November 11, 2020): http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/keywords/2020/11/22/capitalism/

Currency, Colonialism, and Monetary History from Below, Just Money, July 28, 2020: https://justmoney.org/p-hudson-currency-colonialism-and-monetary-history-from-below/

Rogue Bankers, Black Radicalism, and the Caribbean History of Racial Capitalism, Small Axe 62 (July 2020), 197-207

Representing Haiti, SX Salon 31 (June 2019): http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/discussions/representing-haiti

Fighting Back: Comments on Imperial Banking and Caribbean Resistance, Antipode Foundation, (October 2018): https://antipodefoundation.org/2018/11/05/bankers-and-empire/

Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before Trump, London School of Economics Latin American and Caribbean Center, (April 4, 2018): http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2018/04/12/banking-on-a-shithole-us-led-racial-capitalism-in-haiti-began-long-before-trump/

Architecture and Black Autonomy, Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day, Christopher Bedford and Kay Siegel, eds. (Gregory R. Miller and Co. 2017), 19-27

Racial Capitalism and the Dark Proletariat, Boston Review: Forum I, (January 2017), 59-65: https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/peter-james-hudson-racial-capitalism-and/

The Racist Dawn of Capitalism: Unearthing the Economy of Bondage, Boston Review, March 14, 2016: https://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/peter-james-hudson-slavery-capitalism

Discussant: Interchange: The History of Capitalism, Journal of American History, (2014) 101 (2), 503-536.

On African Canadian Thought, (co-author with Dr. Aaron Kamugisha), The CLR James Journal: Journal of the Caribbean Philosophical Association 20: 1-2, Fall, 2014

On the history and historiography of banking in the Caribbean, Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform of Criticism 43 (March 2014), 22-37

The National City Bank of New York and Haiti, 1909-1922, Radical History Review, 115 (Winter 2013), 91-114

Germaine, Evangeline, and other ‘Negro girls’: Rudy Burckhardt’s Caribbean, Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform of Criticism 37 (March 2012), 1-19

Imperial Designs: the Royal Bank of Canada in the Caribbean, Race & Class: A Journal on Racism, Empire and Globalization, London, England, 52: 1, July-August, 2010, 33-48

“The Lost Tribe of a Lost Tribe’: Black British Columbia and the Poetics of Space,” Black Geographies, Katharine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds. (Boston: South End Press; Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2007). Pages 154-176.

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.