Ruth Hill (Ph.D., University of Michigan—Ann Arbor) is a professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, where she also teaches courses on race in the Americas during the 19th and 20th centuries for the American Studies program.  She has authored two books (Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains [2000] and Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America [2005]), edited a volume on critical race studies and the Spanish World for the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and penned essays on colonial and 19th-century history and literature; science; and comparative ethnic and racial studies (Spain, Latin America, the United States). Currently she is working on the relations between folkbiology, natural history, and human diversity from the middle ages to the 18th century, and on a cultural history of Aryanism in the Americas tentatively titled “Aztecs, Incas, and Other White Men: A Hemispheric History of Hate, ca. 1830-2005.”

http://virginia.academia.edu/RuthHill
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