Jane Hassler Hill (born 1939) is an American anthropologist and linguist who has worked extensively with Native American languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family . She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1966. She has worked with descriptive linguistics writing a grammar of the Cupeño language , and has contributed to the fields of linguistic anthropology and socio-linguistics with her works about Nahuatl and about the linguistic expressions of racism towards Spanish-speakers in the American Southwest in her works about mock Spanish . She has also worked with the Tohono O'odham language together with Ofelia Zepeda . From 1998 to 1999 she was president of the American Anthropological Association .[ 1] She has published more than 100 articles and chapters, as well as seven books, including some with linguist Kenneth C. Hill .[1] . In 2009 she retired as Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona .[ 2]
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^ Darnell, Regna & Frederic Wright Gleach, Celebrating a century of the American Anthropological Association: presidential portraits , U of Nebraska Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8032-1720-X , 9780803217201 pp. 297 - 300.
^ Roth-Gordon, J. and Mendoza-Denton, N. (2011), "Introduction: The Multiple Voices of Jane Hill". Journal of Linguistic Anthropology , 21: 157–165.
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Hill, Jane H.
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American linguist
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1939
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