Hillary Jeanne Haldane

Hillary Jeanne Haldane is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Individualized Major and Minor at Quinnipiac University's College of Arts & Sciences. Her research examines violence across Indigenous sovereignty movements in settler-societies (Israel, Aotearoa, USA), higher education structures, familial dynamics, and women's football (FIFA), with regional expertise in Oceania.

Educational Background:

• BA, San Diego State University
• MA, University of California Santa Barbara
• PhD, University of California Santa Barbara

Her scholarship bridges socio-cultural anthropology with urgent contemporary issues, emphasizing sustainable development, medical anthropology, and gender/sex/sexuality frameworks. She leads faculty-led travel courses to Australia, Guatemala, Morocco, and plans for the 2027 Women's World Cup in Brazil, connecting classroom theory to global field experiences.

Analysis of her 14 publications (2021-2025) reveals dominant themes: intersectional critiques of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup through lenses of indigeneity and coloniality; structural violence in pandemic-era higher education; menstrual equity policy; and anthropology's application to general education reform. Her work consistently centers community-engaged methodologies and decolonial perspectives.

Scientific Awards:

• Fulbright Research Award for Australia-based Indigenous sovereignty research

As Director of Individualized Majors/Minors, she mentors students in customized academic pathways. Her grant portfolio includes a CT Humanities Quick Grant (2025) for documenting Quinnipiac's First Intertribal Powwow and Connecticut Department of Public Health funding for the Menstrual Equity Project Evaluation. She actively shapes policy through testimony to the Connecticut General Assembly on sexual misconduct climate assessments.

Dr. Haldane co-leads university-community partnerships including the Menstrual Equity Project and Quinnipiac's Indigenous culture teach-in series, while her research team investigates FIFA's relationship to indigeneity and women's football governance. She maintains active media engagement on preventing societal violence through recognition of shared humanity.