CURRICULUM VITA Name: Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Address: Department of Psychology Virginia State University Petersburg, Virginia 23806 Telephone: Office - (804) 524-5969 Fax (804) 524-5460 E-mail: ohill@vsu.edu Education Graduate: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan M.A., 1979 -- Psychology Ph.D., 1981 Psychology Undergraduate: Howard University Washington, D.C. B.A., 1971 Comparative History Employment Dates: August, 1981 May, 2002; June 2005 - Present Position: Professor of Psychology (Retired 2002-2005) Department Chair June, 2005 June, 2011 Virginia State University Petersburg, Virginia 23806 Responsibilities: Graduate Courses Taught: Experimental Design and Data Analysis in Psychological Research; Learning Theory; Theories of Motivation; Advanced Statistics; Proseminar; Directed or served on the thesis/dissertation committees of over 70 graduate students. Undergraduate Courses Taught: General Psychology; Perception; Experimental Psychology; Physiological Psychology; Quantitative Methods; Tests and Measurements; Psychology and Religion.
Research Areas Cognitive training Religiosity and health Barriers to minority careers in science Psychoepistemology Time perception Problem-solving heuristics Mindful practice Professional Activities Broadening Participation Grant, HRD-1137535 Award total: $342,795 2011-2014 REESE Grant, DRL-0929779 Award total: $989,747 2009-2012 Educational Research Grant, HRD-0714874 Award total: $1,062,000 2007-2011 Board Member, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 2009-2013 Commission Member, Virginia Council on Human Resources Commonwealth of Virginia 2004-2008 2
Member, Scientific Review Panel, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Morgantown, WVA 1994-2000 Member, Special Project Review Panel National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland 1999 2001 Member, Merit Review Panel ITEST, REESE, HBCU-UP Alexandria, Virginia 2008, 2010 Editorial Board: Mindfullness Consulting Reader: Psychological Reports Perceptual and Motor Skills Psychological Bulletin Journal of Child and Family Studies Project Director, Bridges to the Future Project Grant National Institutes of Health Award total: $600,000 1997-2002 External Program Evaluator Appalachia Educational Laboratory Charleston, West Virginia 1993-1999 Project Co-Director, VSU Computer-Based Instructional Technologies Project Grant No. USE-9154189 1991-1994 3
Project Director, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Grant U.S. Department of Education Award total: $160,000 1989-1991 Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) National Institutes of Health 1989-1990 Selected Publications Hill, O., Serpell, Z. & Faison, M. (2012). Improving minority student mathematics performance through cognitive training. In L.A. Flowers, J. Moore, and L. O. Flowers (Eds.), The Evolution of Learning: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, University Press of America. Boyd, K., Hill, O., Fife, J. & Whittington, M. (2011). Religiosity and HIV risk behaviors in African American college students, Psychological Reports, 108, 528-536. Clark, V. & Hill, O. (2009), Cardiovascular reactivity to racist stressors in African American college students, Ethnicity & Disease, 19, 2-6. Ma, L., Sherstyuk, K., Dowling, M., and Hill, O. (2002). Altruism and voluntary provision of public goods. Economics Bulletin, 3, 1-8. Hill, O. W., Block, R. A., & Buggie, S. E. (2000). Culture and beliefs about time: Comparisons among Black Americans, Black Africans, and White Americans. Journal of Psychology, 134, 443-461. Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1998). Childhood fantasy, creativity and an internal epistemic style. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 13, 177-184. Hill, O. and Huntley, L. (1998). The internal-external dimension of epistemic and personality factors and a measure of achievement motivation. Psychological Reports, 82, 1331-1334. Hill, O. (1996). The internal/external dimension in psychoepistemic orientation and measures of ability. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 82, 872-874. 4
Hill, O. and Moadab, M. (1995). Spatial information and temporal representation in memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81, 1339-1343. Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1994). Academic procrastination among African-American college students. Psychological Reports, 75, 931-936. Hill, O. (1993). Altered states of consciousness. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Long-term memory: Nature, contents and formation. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Sources of experimental bias. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. (1993). Statistical significance tests. In F. Magill (Ed.), Survey of Social Science: Psychology. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Hill, O. and Clark, J. (1993). The personality typology of black college students: Evidence for a characteristic cognitive style? Psychological Reports, 72, 1091-1097. Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1993). The psychoepistemological profile of African-American college students. Psychological Reports, 72, 587-590. Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1993). Spatial coding of temporal order information in short-term memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, 119-124. Hill, O. and Stuckey, R. (1992). Factor structure of beliefs about time among African-American college students. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75, 785-786. Hill, O. (1990). Rethinking the "significance" of the rejected null hypothesis. American Psychologist, 45(5), 667-668. Hill, O., Pettus, W. and Hedin, B. (1990) Three studies of factors affecting the attitudes of blacks and females toward the pursuit of science and science-related careers. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27(4), 289-314. Hill, O. (1987). Intuition: Inferential heuristic or epistemic mode? Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 7(2), 137-153. Hill, O. (1986). Further implications of anomalous data for scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 41(10), 1170-1172. 5
Professional Affiliations American Psychological Association Association for Psychological Science Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 6