CHRISTOPHER L. HILL EDUCATION 1992 Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Dissertation: Archaeological and Pleistocene Geology of Acheulian and Middle Paleolithic Sites in the Bir Tarfawi Region of the Southern Egyptian Sahara. Chair: Fred Wendorf. 1989 M.A., Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. 1982 B.A., University of Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota. Interdisciplinary Studies: Geology, Archaeology and Anthropology. Senior Thesis: Paleoecology of the Cloquet River Basin: Geomorphology and Environmental Change in Northeastern Minnesota. Advisor: George Rapp. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 2017-Present Program Director, National Science Foundation • Program policies and procedures, long-range planning and budget development. • Management of merit review, award, declination, post-award processes. • Coordination and collaboration with NSF Programs, other Federal agencies and organizations. • Programs: - Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), - Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP), - EHR Core Research (ECR Working Group, STEM workforce development), - Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN), - Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER, Program Officer, Working Group). • Selected Panels, Working Groups, Site Visit Teams: - Growing Convergence Research (CGR, NSF Big Ideas, Working Group/Steering Committee), - NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT, Panel Manager), - Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (BCSER, Panel Manager), - Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS Working Group, Program Officer), - Science and Technology Centers (NSF Site Visit Member), - Signals in the Soil (SitS Working Group). • Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Convergence; Federal Coordination in STEM Education (FC-STEM); Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education (CoSTEM); National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) (Subcommittee Member, NSF Lead Representative). 2016 Acting Dean, Graduate College, Boise State University • Chief academic and administrative officer of the Graduate College. • Responsible for oversight of more than 100 graduate programs (certificates, master’s, doctorates). • Served on Deans Council, Administrative Council, Executive Enrollment Management Committee. • Collaborated with other administrative and academic units, responsible for Graduate College policy. 2012-2016 Associate Dean, Graduate College, Boise State University • Senior university administrator for all issues related to graduate education. • Served as representative of the Dean, supervised Graduate College staff in the absence of the Dean. • Direct administrative responsibility for student affairs and graduate admissions/degree services. - Decisions on admissions, committee structure, academic progress, probation, assistantships and fellowships, readmission, graduation, academic appeals. - Developed and implemented new graduate education policy and policy language. • Supervised Director of Graduate Recruitment. - Enrollment management, recruitment and mentoring, graduate student professional development. • Served as advisor for graduate programs and Graduate Council, graduate faculty. 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Hill 11 March 2021 - Ensured compliance with university and Graduate College policies, State Board of Education policies and regulations, federal regulations, procedures, and laws. - Collaborated on external grant and fellowship funding initiatives. • Managed graduate student support budgets, grant programs, other research and funding initiatives. 2007-2012 Director and Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program, Boise State University • Managed large university-wide interdisciplinary undergraduate degree; collaborated with Faculty Affiliates. • Served as academic advisor and mentor for all majors; academic adjustments, degree requirements. • Responsible for curriculum management; chair of curriculum committee, representative to College curriculum committee. • Internship Coordinator; Concurrent Enrollment Coordinator; Chair, scholarship selection committee. 1997-2002 Director, Environmental Change/Ice Age Research Program, Montana State University • Administered and managed endowed research program. • Developed and executed field projects and laboratory activities. • Collaborated and coordinated with federal and state agencies, project scientists. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND RESEARCH POSITIONS National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) 2018-Present Research Associate. Boise State University 2013-Present Full Professor with Tenure (joint appointment in Department of Geosciences and Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences; faculty affiliate in Environmental Studies Program, and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program; Graduate Faculty). 2007-2012 Associate Professor with Tenure. 2002-2007 Assistant Professor. Combined Prehistoric Expedition, Field School, Egypt 2000 Senior Faculty Archaeologist and Geomorphologist. Montana State University 1995-2002 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences. 1994-2002 Associate Curator of Geology and Biology, Museum of the Rockies. Tulane University 1993 Visiting Assistant Professor (Winter/Spring). Southern Methodist University 1992-1993 Fellow, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man. 1986 Teaching Assistant, Anthropology Department. 1982-1992 Graduate Research Assistant, Wendorf Laboratory and Radiocarbon Laboratory. Archaeological Research Services 1980 Field Assistant, Superior National Forest, Minnesota. University of Wisconsin 1980 Participant with Stipend-Geologist, Student-Originated Studies, National Science Foundation Grant. University of Minnesota Archaeometry Laboratory and Environmental Geology-Geochemistry-Ecology Working Group 1992-1994 Research Associate. 2 Christopher L. Hill 11 March 2021 1982-1992 Research Fellow. 1977-1982 Lab Attendant-Lab Technician-Senior Lab Technician. HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS 2019 Special Act Award (contributions to learning, collaboration and public service), National Science Foundation. 2010 Provost’s Excellence in Advising Award, Boise State University. 2008 Elected Fellow, Geological Society of America. 2006 Promoted to Full Member, Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society. 2004 Annual Faculty Award, Research, Teaching, and Service, Boise State University. 1991 Claude C. Albritton, Jr. Award (accomplishment in interdisciplinary research), Southern Methodist University, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man. 1989 Elected Associate Member, Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society. 1989 Weber Graduate Fellowship, Southern Methodist University. 1986 Scholarship, Southern Methodist University, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man. 1982-1985 Scholarship, Southern Methodist University. 1980 Elected Member, Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society. BOOKS 2020 地质考古学：地球科学方法在考古学中的应用 (Geoarchaeology: Application of Earth Science Methods in Archaeology). Science Press (科学出版社), Chinese Academy of Science (co- author with Rapp, G., translated by Shi Xia Yang (杨石霞), Keliang Zhao (赵克良), and Yuxia Zhang (李小强 )). Chinese translation of Rapp and Hill, 2006, with a new preface. (6) 2006 Geoarchaeology: The Earth Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation. Second Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven (co-author with Rapp, G.). (5) 2005 The Merrell Locality (24BE1659) and Centennial Valley, Southwest Montana: Pleistocene Geology, Paleontology, and Prehistoric Archaeology. Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Series No. 4, Billings, Montana (first editor with Davis, L.B.). (4) 2001 Mesozoic and Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains. Occasional Paper No. 3, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman (editor). (3) 1998 Geoarchaeology: The Earth Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation. Yale University Press, New Haven (co-author with Rapp, G.) (three printings). (2) 1995 The Paleo-Indian of Southern St. Louis County, Minnesota: The Reservoir Lakes Complex. Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies University of Minnesota Monograph Series, Number 4. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company (co-author with Harrison, C., Redepenning, E., Aschenbrenner, S., Rapp, G., Jr., Huber, J., and Muholland, S.). (1) PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED JOURNALS, CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, EXTENDED ENCYCLOPDEIA ENTRIES 2020 “Age of the Late Middle Paleolithic Nile Aggradation: The Khormusan and the Atmur El Kibeish Aterian,” Not Just a Corridor. Human Occupation of the Nile Valley and Neighboring Regions Between 75,000 and 15,000 Years Ago, Leplongeon, A., Goder-Goldberger, M, Pleurdeau, D., eds., Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, pp. 71-91 (co-author with Schild, R., Bluszcz, A.). (74) 2020 “Quaternary and Late Tertiary of Montana: Climate, Glaciation, Stratigraphy, and Vertebrate Fossils”, in Montana Centennial Geology, Volume I, Geologic History, Vuke, S., ed. (https://mbmg.mtech.edu/pdf/geologyvolume/Smith_QuaternaryMontanaFinal.pdf), Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte (co-author with Smith, L.N., Reiten, J.). (73) 3 Christopher L. Hill 11 March 2021 2018 “Geomorphological Survey,” The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley Blackwell, S.L.L. Varela (ed.) (invited). (72) 2017 “Paleohydrology and Paleoenvironments at Bir Sahara: Pleistocene Lithostratigraphy and Sedimentology in the Southern Egyptian Sahara,” Journal of African Earth Sciences,