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Sarah Hill

Ph.D. 2001 The Johns Hopkins University

Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies 1012 Moore Hall (269) 387-4150   Web site

Research interests: Garbage, recycling, environmental politics, biofuels

Regional focus: North American borders, Mexico

Selected publications: Hill, S (2006) Purity and danger on the US-Mexico border, 1990-1994. South Atlantic Quarterly 105: 777-800.

Hill, S (2005) The trouble with Toronto's trash. Rhizome, Newsletter of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada 15: 12-13.

Hill, S (2005) The Chamizal Tipping Point? El Paso's garbage in 1910. Passwords, The Quarterly Journal of the El Paso Historical Society 50: 142-149.

Hill, S (2001) The environmental divide: Neoliberal incommensurability at the US-Mexico border. Urban Anthropology 30: 157-188.

A closer look: Sarah Hill is a cultural anthropologist who examines patterns of disposal in order to see what discards can tell us about politics and culture. She is at work on a book that explores how garbage changes as it moves across the borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. She's particularly interested in how debates in Michigan over Toronto's trash reflect broader changes in the cross-border economy and the on-going industrial transformations of globalization. Her community work focuses on turning Kalamazoo's kitchen grease into a biofuel for local public fleets. With a team of chemistry faculty she co-founded and directs Bronco Biodiesel. She also holds a joint appointment in Environmental Studies.