Mike Hill
Associate Professor & Department Chair, Department of English
Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Women's Studies
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Critical Race Studies, Eighteenth-Century Writing and the Public Sphere; Materialist Cultural Theory
Humanities 344
442-4080
mikehill@albany.edu
Mike Hill's research focuses on contemporary questions of race and
whiteness, social movement theory, materialist reconceptions of
identity, war and peace studies, and most recently, Adam Smith, the
history of eighteenth-century writing, and the emergence of the public
sphere.
His primary publications to date are: Whiteness: A Critical Reader (New
York University Press: 1997), which won the Gustavas Myers Award for
Best Book of 1997; (co-ed) Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere
(Verso: 2001 www.versobooks.com); and After Whiteness: Unmaking an
American Majority (New York University Press: 2004
http://www.nyupress.org/.) Hill is currently completing a book on the
moral and philosophical writing of Adam Smith. An additional book,
Ecologies of War: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States, will
be published on the University of Minnesota Press.
Hill is currently on the editorial board of the Review of
Education/Pedagogy/and Cultural Studies; Cultural Logic; and The Global
South. He is also Associate Editor of the minnesota review.
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