ALS Home

 
 
  Department of Africana and Latino Studies  
HillDr. Donald R. Hill, Professor of Anthropology and Africana and Latino Studies, received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Indiana University. He is an authority on the ethnomusicology and ethnography of the Caribbean and has published two books, many scholarly articles, notes for commercial recordings, and numerous reviews, encyclopedia entries, etc. His Calypso Calaloo: Early Trinidadian Carnival Music won the 1994 Chicago Folklore Prize. He has created an archive and computer data base of 18,000 commercial recordings; hundreds of hours of his own ethno-musical recordings have been deposited at the Indiana University Archive of Traditional Music. Dr. Hill has taught courses in cultural anthropology (Africa and the Caribbean), folklore and ethnomusicology for thirty five years. His current project is digitizing field recordings he and his collaborator Dave Mangurian made as youths in the Mississippi Delta. Phone: 607-436-2018. Email: donald.hill@oneonta.edu.
 
  ©2013 SUNY Oneonta - Department of Africana & Latino Studies