Jane H. Hill
| Jane Hassler Hill | |
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October 27, 1939 Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
| Education | B.A., UC Berkeley, 1960; Ph.D, UCLA, 1966. |
| Occupation | Professor |
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| Spouse(s) | Kenneth C. Hill |
| Honours | President, American Anthropological Association (1997–1999) |
Jane Hassler Hill, (born Frances Jane Hassler, October 27, 1939) is an American anthropologist and linguist who has worked extensively with Native American languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family and anthropological linguistics of North American communities.
Hill was born Frances Jane Hassler in Berkeley, CA to Gerald L. Hassler and Mildred E. Mathias. Her family moved to Binghamton, NY during World War II, then returned to California when the war ended in the late 1940s. At this time, both of her parents were on staff at UCLA: her father in the Department of Engineering and her mother as director of the botanical garden, which now bears her name (see Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden).
Hill began her post-secondary education at Reed College, which she attended for two years before transferring to University of California, Berkeley. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1960, then matriculated at UCLA to pursue her Ph.D. There she studied under influential figures in anthropology and linguistics including Harry Hoijer and William Bright. She met her husband, Kenneth C. Hill, in Hoijer's historical linguistics course in 1961. The Hills were married in 1962 and had their first of three children the same year. Jane finished her dissertation in 1966. The Hills then moved to Ann Arbor, MI, where Kenneth worked in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Jane worked at Wayne State University in the Department of Anthropology from 1968-1983, eventually becoming head of the department. She took a sabbatical from 1974-1975, as did Kenneth, and they used this time to begin work on Nahuatl. In 1983, she moved to Tucson, AZ to work at the University of Arizona as a professor of Anthropology and Linguistics. While at the University, Hill received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Anthropological Association. From 1997-1999 she served as President of the American Anthropological Association. Around this time, Hill also successfully championed a program at the University of Arizona that would allow for a joint Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics, a testimony to her influence in and passion for both disciplines. In 2009 she retired as Regents' Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona, but continues to work on a variety of research projects.
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