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Background
Anita Hill is an attorney and University Professor of social policy, law, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. She holds a BS in psychology from Oklahoma State University and a JD from Yale University’s School of Law.
Interests
Hill’s academic work centers on anti-discrimination law and policy; exploring the broad capacity of Title IX, particularly in STEM; initiating legal and policy reforms which will further ensure educational equity for girls and women of all races and economic backgrounds; merging public policy, social science, and legal research methods and theory.
Hill became a national figure in 1991 when she presented a testimony of sexual harassment against then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. The high-profile political battle captured the nation’s attention and changed Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Hill’s current work engages academics and business professionals to develop “The Gender/Race Imperative,” a project which explores the broad capacity of Title IX, the crucial law mandating equal education opportunities for women. “The Gender/Race Imperative” is a research and implementation project aimed at initiating legal and policy reforms which will further ensure educational equity for girls and women of all races and economic backgrounds. The work is multidisciplinary, merging public policy, social science, and legal research methods and theory.
Sample Work
Publication
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Home in America
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Home in America. Beacon Press, 2011.
Publication
Choice, Social Structure, and Educational Policy
“Choice, Social Structure, and Educational Policy.” Race, Markets and Social Structures, 1st Edition. Ed. Emma Coleman Jordan. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008.
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What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the 'Woman Question'
“What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the ‘Woman Question’.” Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change. 1st Edition. Eds. Barbara Kellerman and Deborah Rhode. New York: Jossey-Boss, 2007. 1-29.
Publication
Speaking Truth to Power
Speaking Truth to Power. Doubleday, 1997