Scholarship and Biography

Anita F. Hill teaches courses on gender, race, social policy and legal history.


Hill’s latest book is Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Finding Home (Beacon Press, 2011) combines the study of commercial and anti-discrimination law with an examination of culture and society to address the 2008 foreclosure crisis and its ongoing impact.

Honors

Honorary Degree
Simmons University (United States, Boston), 2001
Honorary Degree
Dillard University (United States, New Orleans), 2001
Honorary Degree
Smith College (United States, Northampton), 2003
Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship Award
Fletcher Foundation, 2005
Honorary Degree
Lasell College (United States, Newton) - LC, 2007
Ford Hall Forum, First Amendment Award
Suffolk University (United States, Boston), 2008
Honorary Degree
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (United States, North Adams) - MCLA, 2008
Honorary Degree
Mount Ida College (United States, Newton), 2013
Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance
University of California, Merced (United States, Merced) - UCM, 2016
Honorary Degree
Emerson College (United States, Boston), 2017
Martin Luther King Fellowship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States, Cambridge) - MIT, 2017-2018
Honorary Degree
Lesley University (United States, Cambridge), 2019
Fellow
American Bar Foundation (United States, Chicago) - ABF, 2019
Honorary Degree
Mount Holyoke College (United States, South Hadley) - MHC, 2022
Silver Gavel Award
American Bar Association (United States, Chicago) - ABA, 07/12/2022

Organizational Affiliations

Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Legal Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Department of African and African American Studies, Brandeis University

University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and David R. Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Past Affiliations

Visiting Scholar, Wellesley College (United States, Wellesley)

Education

Yale University
J.D.
Oklahoma State University-Main Campus
B.S.