Laura Warren Hill, Professor of African-American and US History at Bloomfield College, NJ

Laura Warren Hill, Class of 1998

BA in History and Women's Studies from SUNY Geneseo, MA in History from SUNY Brockport, and PhD in History from Binghamton University

I currently teach African American and US History at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. My research and scholarship centers on the Black experience in the United States, specifically in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. This has taken me into communities to document the life and work of citizen activists. The following is a link to an oral history collection completed with the University of Rochester. http://www.library.rochester.edu/rbscp/572

Prior to returning the graduate school to earn a PhD, I worked for AIDS Rochester and for the NYS Department of Health as an HIV/AIDS counselor, tester, and educator. I was primarily assigned to work in the NYS prison system. The critical thinking and communication skills that I learned in the History major were transferable to this health/education field. The emphasis on social justice in many of courses prepared me to do the work with incarcerated individuals and with people living at the margins of society, often without health care. Working with faculty invested in teasing out the trajectory of social and racial inequality at Geneseo was a tremendous resource to draw upon as I developed my career skills.