University of Kansas Sociology Department
722 Fraser Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
hill@ku.edu

My research focuses primarily on families, health/health care, and social inequalities. I am interested in understanding the dynamics of family life within African American families and how those dynamics are shaped by larger social structural forces. I have also recently begun to look at African immigration to the US and the African diaspora in general in terms of how it affects gender/kinship among black people.

Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships (AltaMira, 2005)

Managing Sickle Cell Disease in Low-Income Families (Temple University Press, 1994)

African American Children: Socialization and Development in Families (Sage, 1999)

Race, Work and Family (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming, co-edited with Marlese Durr; a volume of readings on the interface between work and families among African Americans)