Faculty Profile: Dr. Donald R. Hill
Dr. Donald R. Hill (Professor) is a cultural anthropologist who received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University in 1973. He is also currently a Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Africana and Latino Studies at SUCO. He has been a Curator of Education at the American Museum of Natural History and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College.
Dr. Hill teaches courses in cultural anthropology, folklore, and ethnomusicology. Dr. Hill is an authority on Caribbean ethnography and ethnomusicology, and has published two books and a number of articles, reviews, museum entries, and magazine articles. He has compiled an archive and computer data base of 17,000 commercial recordings and has contributed hundreds of hours of ethnomusicological recordings at the Indiana University Archive of Traditional Music.
His major publications include Calypso Calaloo: Early Trinidadian Carnival Music (1993), The Impact of Migration on the Metropolitan and Folk Society of Carriacou, Grenada (1977), The Drum and Other Ritual and Social Music of Carriacou, Grenada (1981), and Caribbean Folklore: A Handbook (2007). His publications also include two articles in Natural History-"Play Mas" in Brooklyn" (August 1979) and "The Roots of Pan" (in press).
Courses taught by Dr. Hill:
ANTH 100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 202 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
ANTH 203 Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean
ANTH 210 Anthropological Folklore
ANTH 211 Religion, Magic, and Myth
ANTH 212 Music of the Caribbean
ANTH 390 Issues in Anthropology
Visit Dr. Hill’s personal web page here
E-Mail: hilldr@oneonta.edu