SIMONA J. HILL

Mini-Curriculum Vitae

 

Susquehanna University

514 University Avenue

Selinsgrove, PA  17870-1164

(570) 372-4263

(570) 372-2743 (fax)

hill@susqu.edu

 

 

 

Mission Statement

My vision is that education augments the realization of human potential

 through enhancing a person’s abilities to think critically and act responsibly towards future generations. My mission is to engage a wider audience through

 publication with an emphasis on multiculturalism, community leadership, activist scholarship, and mutual empowerment.

 

 

 

*Current Position

                Assistant Professor of Sociology

                Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna University

 

 

*Education

                University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

                Ph.D. conferred on May 22, 1989.

Concentrations in Sociology of the Family, Medicine and Race & Ethnic Relations.

The first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in sociology  from the University of Pennsylvania since 1937.

B.A. and M.A. in sociology awarded concurrently, August 1983.

Emphasis on Health Care Systems.  Racial Justice and Urban Ethnography Research Assistantship with the late Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

Certified Professional Sociological Practitioner, C.P.S.P., March 1997

 

 

*Professional Experience

 

1999-present                         Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna University

 

1998-1999                               Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna University

 

1985-1999                                              Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies Department

1985-1999                               Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

The College of General Studies

 

1997-1998                                              Lecturer, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ      

Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice.

 

1995-1996                                              Director, Pickett Community School, Philadelphia PA

In March 1995, the School District of Philadelphia granted the Pickett Middle School and the Germantown section of Philadelphia $400,000 to begin an experimental initiative which supported the Superintendent’s Children Achieving Plan.  As an activist for community revitalization and decision-making, my responsibilities included: supervising staff and budgets; developing and implementing new policies on community based, socially conscious programming; cultivating partnerships with businesses and universities; and making educational resources accessible to children and families.

 

1991-1993                                              Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA

 

1990-1991                               Academic Advisor, former Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (now Philadelphia University). Supervised staff assistants, administered Pennsylvania grant for part-time ACT 101 students; provided direct counseling and academic support; managed college budget allocations.

 

1988-1989                                  Social Worker, Representative for U.S. Department of Housing    

and Urban  Development’s pilot Tenant Management Corporation program

 

*Some of  My Multicultural and Diversity Experience

 

Member of the Association of Black Sociologists.

Presidential Address on Diversity Forum, creator and facilitator, Spring 2001

African American Women and the Creative Life Symposium, creator and presenter, Fall 2000

Diversity Consultant

National MultiCultural Institute, Washington, DC “Training of Trainer’s” certificate 1996

Counseled over 300 Au Pair families in conflict resolution.

Coordinator of College Freshman Orientation Programs and AIDS Awareness Weeks

Researcher for the Philadelphia Geriatric Center and the National Institute of Mental Health

Advisor for PA. Black Conference on Higher Education Student Leadership Development Institute.

 

 

*Academic Awards and Civic Honors

 

Recipient of $25,000 Degenstein Foundation Teaching and Learning Grant to develop Faculty Training Diversity Initiative AY02-03 with Dr. Amy Winans.

American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), Washington, D.C. for accepted team academy proposal, summer 2002, Mount Snow, Vermont.

Research Grants to study National Curriculum Transformation, Barbados, W.I., 2001

“Kitchen Fights” Grants for Pedagogical Teaching Methods, 1999-2000

Council of the City of Philadelphia, Civic Contribution Award, 1989

W.E.B. DuBois Award for Outstanding Academic Scholarship, 1989

Department Teaching Fellowships, 1985-89

Dissertation Grant for Ethnographic Research, 1988

Mayor’s Scholarship of Philadelphia, 1980-85

Recipient of the Mayor’s Outstanding Volunteer Award for 1987 and 1990

 

*Doctoral Dissertation with Honors Distinction:

The Significance of Health, Illness & Culture Among the Levys: An Ethnographic Field Study of a Three-Generation, Urban Black Family.

Supervisor: Dr. Reneé C. Fox, Annenberg Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences

 

*Publications and Works in Progress:

“Grandparents Who Care for Crack Addicted Babies,” in “It Just Ain’t Fair.” The Ethics of health Care for African-Americans, edited by A. Dula and S. Goering, NY: Praeger Press, 1994.

 

“All I Can Cook is Crack On a Spoon: A Sign for New Generation of Feminists” in This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, eds. Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating, NY: Routledge Press, October 2002.

 “Activism and Alliance within Campus Sisterhood Organizations” in Teaching Feminist Activism: Strategies from the Field, eds. Nancy Naples and Karen Bojar, NY: Routledge Press, 2002.

 

“Of the Garden of Good and Evil: The Relevance of W.E.B. DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk for Social Justice and Diversity Studies Education” for a second volume in the book of proceedings from the Mercer University DuBois Symposium, Spring 2000.

 

“Discovering La Conciencia de la Mestiza in the Midst of White Privilege” for an anthology, Entremundos: Creative and Critical Perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Editor, AnaLouise Keating, forthcoming 2003.

 

“Teaching Diversity in a Sea of Sameness,” co-authored with Dave Ramsaran, Susquehanna University, accepted for publication in an anthology Ingrates at the Gate, ed. Patti L. Duncan, forthcoming 2003.

 

“A Little Lower Than The Angels: A Partial Legacy From My Mother and Mom-Mom Ione,” accepted for publication in an anthology Black Women's Leadership Development: Legacies From Our Mothers and Othermothers, ed. Toni C. King , Associate Professor of Black Women's Studies at Denison University, forthcoming 2003.

 

Also Forthcoming:

 

"Death of a Picaninny:  The Continuous Process of Addressing White Privilege in the Academy."  Spring 2003

 

“Creating a Homeplace in the Third Wave Classroom: Teaching, Theories, and Activism” with Emily K. Anderson. Spring 2003.

 

*Current Research Project

 “Women of the Peace Mission Movement: An Oral Socio-Historical Project”— http://www.libertynet.org/fdipmm/