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CHARLES E. HILTON

Curriculum Vitae

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Department of Anthropology The University at Albany, e-mail: chilton@albany.edu State University of New York 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222

A. EDUCATION

2013 Master of Public Health, University of Michigan, School of Public Health,

Department of Epidemiology. Field: Epidemiology.

Capstone Advisor: Professor Mark Wilson.

1997 Doctor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Department of

Anthropology. Field: Biological anthropology.

Graduate advisor: Professor Erik Trinkaus.

Dissertation title: Comparative locomotor kinesiology in two contemporary

hominid groups: Sedentary Americans and mobile Venezuelan foragers.

1988 Master of Science, University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology.

Field: Biological anthropology.

1984 Bachelor of Arts, University of Oklahoma. Major: Anthropology

B. APPOINTMENTS

8/2016 Current Assistant Professor (Visiting), Dept. of Anthropology, SUNY-Albany.

8/2014 7/2016 Assistant Professor (Visiting), Dept. of Anthropology, Grinnell College.

8/2013 7/14 Assistant Professor (Visiting), Department of Anthropology, University of

North Carolina, Greensboro.

2008 2010 Assistant Professor (Visiting), Dept. of Anthropology, Grinnell College.

2007 Present Research Fellow, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University

of Texas at Austin.

2004 2007 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Western Michigan University.

2003 2004 Assistant Professor (Visiting), Department of Anthropology, Western

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Michigan University.

2001 2003 Assistant Professor (Visiting), Dept of Anthropology, Grinnell College.

1999 2001 Assistant Professor (Visiting), Dept. of Anthropology, Queens College of the

City University of New York.

1997 1999 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of

New Mexico.

1997 1999 Instructor, Biology Division, Albuquerque Community College (now Central

New Mexico University), Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1994 1997 Osteology Laboratory Assistant Curator, Laboratory of Human Osteology,

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

1989 1997 Teaching Assistant, Human Gross Anatomy Laboratory, Department of

Biology, University of New Mexico.

1990 1994 Teaching Associate and Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology,

University of New Mexico.

1988 1989 Research Assistant, Paleoanthropology Laboratory, University of New

Mexico.

1987 1987 Archaeology Curatorial Student Assistant, Maxwell Museum of

Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

1985 1987 Osteology Laboratory Student Assistant, Laboratory of Human Osteology,

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

1984 1984 Laboratory Technician, Oklahoma Archaeological Survey, University of

Oklahoma.

C. GRANTS

In prep. Wenner-Gren Foundation. Subsistence boundaries and economic activities of the Dorobo:

marginalized honey gatherers among Samburu pastoralists of northern Kenya.

2016 Grinnell College, Faculty Research Grant, Dean of Arts and Sciences: Comparative

bioarchaeology of Nakeidi Cairinfield, a Pastoral Iron Age archaeological site, Samburu

County, Kenya.

2015 Grinnell College, Faculty Research Grant, Dean of Arts and Sciences: Bioarchaeology of

Nakeidi Cairinfield, a Pastoral Iron Age archaeological site, Samburu County, Kenya.

2010 Grinnell College, Mentored Advanced Project, Dean of Arts and Sciences: Deer bone

taphonomy and diagenesis in the context of cooking.

2009 Grinnell College, Faculty Research Grant, Dean of Arts and Sciences: Bioarchaeology of

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pastoralists, Samburu District, Kenya.

2008 National Science Foundation (as a member of Senior Personnel; PIs: Bilinda Straight,

Western Michigan University; Ivy Pike, University of Arizona): The Violence of Small

Wars, Poverty, and Health in Three Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya.

2008 The British Academy (Co-PI w/Paul Lane, York University): Archaeological excavations

at Baawa cairnfield, Samburu District, Kenya.

2006 Western Michigan University, Faculty Research and Creative Activities Support Grant,

(Co PI w/Bilinda Straight): Memory, Landscape, and the Evolution of East African

Pastoralists.

2005 Western Michigan University, Visiting Scholars and Artists Program Grant: Professor

Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah, Member National Academy of Sciences, invitee.

2004 Western Michigan University, Faculty Research and Creative Activities Support Grant:

Bioarchaeology of prehistoric Lower Pecos foragers of west Texas.

2003 American Museum of Natural History, Collections Study Grant: Bioarchaeology of pre-

contact Iupiat of Point Hope, Alaska.

2003 Grinnell College, Mentored Advanced Project, Dean of Arts and Sciences: Rheumatoid

arthritis in a pre-contact Iupiat forager of Point Hope, Alaska.

2003 Grinnell College, Mentored Advanced Project, Dean of Arts and Sciences: The

bioarchaeology of tuberculosis in pre-contact Iupiat foragers of Point Hope, Alaska.

2002 Grinnell College, Dean of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant: Bioarchaeology and

paleopathology of pre-contact Iupiat of Point Hope, Alaska.

2001 Grinnell College, Dean of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant: Bioarchaeology and

paleopathology of pre-contact Iupiat of Point Hope, Alaska.

2001 Queens College/City University of New York, Arts and Sciences, Faculty Travel Grant.

2000 Queens College/City University of New York, Arts and Sciences, Faculty Travel Grant.

1996 University of New Mexico, Office of Graduate Studies, Research Project and Travel Grant.

1995 University of New Mexico, Office of Graduate Studies, Research Project and Travel Grant.

1995 University of New Mexico, Vice-President of Research, Graduate Student Funding.

1994 Office of Graduate Studies, Univ. of New Mexico, Research Project and Travel Grant.

1993 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

1993 Pum Locomotor Research Fund, University of New Mexico Foundation.

1992 University of New Mexico, Latin American Institute, Field Research Grant.

1990 University of New Mexico, Vice-President of Research, Graduate Student Grant.

1989 University of New Mexico, Vice-President of Research, Graduate Student Grant.

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1988-96 Univ. of New Mexico, Graduate Student Association, Student Research Allocations Grants.

D. PUBLICATIONS

Books

2014 C. E. Hilton, B. Auerbach, and L. Cowgill, editors. The foragers of Point Hope: The biology

and archaeology of humans on the edge of the Alaskan Arctic. Cambridge Studies in

Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (ISBN:

9781107022508).

2004 D. J. Meldrum and C. E. Hilton, editors. From Biped to Strider: The emergence of

modern human walking, running, and resource transport. Kluwer Academic Publishers, New

York (ISBN: 9780306479991).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

In review Straight, B., I. Pike, and C. E. Hilton. Health on the move: Pastoralist access to care in

contexts of conflict and food insercurity. For inclusion in the Multiple Healths volume of the

Uppsala Papers in Africa Studies series.

In review I. L. Pike, B. Straight, C. E. Hilton, and M. esterle. Placing East African Youth in

Context: A Social Determinants of Health Case Study. Submitted to Social Science &

Medicine.

2016 B. Straight, P. Lane, C. E. Hilton, and M. Letua. Dust People: Samburu perspectives on

disaster, identity, and resilience. Journal of Eastern African Studies 10 (1):168-188. DOI:

10.1080/17531055.2016.1138638.

2016 I. L. Pike, B. Straight, C. E. Hilton, and M. esterle. Comparative nutritional indicators as

markers for resilience: A case study of the impacts of low-intensity violence among three

pastoralist communities of northern Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 10 (1):150-

167. DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2016.1138657.

2015 B. S. Straight, P. Lane, C. E. Hilton and M. Letua. It was Maendeleo that removed

them: Reciprocal Knowledge Production in an Archaeological Ethnography of Landscape.

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21 (2): 391-418. DOI:10.1111/1467-

9655.12212.

2014 B. S. Straight, I. L. Pike, C. E. Hilton, and M. esterle. Suicide in Three East African

Pastoralist Communities and the Role of Researcher Outsiders for Positive Transformation: A

Case Study. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. DOI 10.1007/s11013-014-9417-4.

2011 M. D. Ogilvie and C. E. Hilton. Cross-sectional geometry in the humeri of foragers and

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farmers from the Prehispanic American Southwest: Exploring patterns in the sexual division of

labor. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144: 11-21. DOI 10.1002/ajpa.21362.

2010 I. L. Pike, B. S. Straight, C. E. Hilton, M. sterle, and A. Lanyasunya. Documenting the

health consequences of endemic warfare in three pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya: a

conceptual framework. Special Issue: Violence, Conflict, and Health. Social Science &

Medicine 70 (1): 45-52. doi:10.1016/j.s