Amanda Hilton
Research Interests
environmental anthropology, political ecology, critical food studies, critical heritage studies, anthropology of the senses, applied and collaborative methodologies
Sicily, Italy, the Mediterranean, US Southwest & Southeast
Contact Information
Degree(s)
2020 PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Arizona
2015 MA, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Arizona
2007 BA, Anthropology, Religious Studies, Colby College
Disertation Title
Courses Taught
Instructor
2021 University of Arizona, School of Geography and Development
Introduction to Critical Food Studies
2019 Syracuse Academy and ACCENT for University of California Education Abroad
Program, “Mediterranean Politics, Food and Culture Program in Syracuse, Barcelona and
Florence,” Siracusa, Sicily
Sicilian Foodways: Migration, Labor, and Identity in the Mediterranean (study abroad
site-specific condensed course)
Co-instructor
2019 Università degli Studi di Catania (University of Catania), Dipartimento di Scienze
Umanistiche (Department of Humanistic Sciences)
Etnografie ambientali della Sicilia (Environmental Ethnographies of Sicily)
(2-month laboratory course)
2018 Università degli Studi di Palermo (University of Palermo) and the Anna Tasca Lanza
Cooking School
What is Good, Clean, and Fair? An Experiential Ethnographic Engagement with
Valledolmo’s Food System
(1-week experiential learning course combining University of Palermo students with
international cooking school students in central Sicily)
