Amanda Hilton

Dr. Amanda Hilton (she/her) is a research scientist at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), in the School of Anthropology. Amanda is an applied environmental anthropologist working at the interdisciplinary nexus of political ecology, critical food studies, and critical heritage studies. She has worked on a variety of applied research projects in and around Tucson, in the greater Southwest, on the US-Mexico border, and in South Louisiana; her dissertation examines the motivations for and impacts of a recent geographical indication for extra-virgin olive oil from the Italian island of Sicily. She is interested in the relationships between locally and sensorially grounded experiences of people in place (especially through practices of food production) and broader political economic processes and power dynamics. Reach her at ajhilton@arizona.edu and find out more about her work on the BARA website.