APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, North Carolina State University (2023-Present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Impact Labs, VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, Stanford University (2021-2023 )
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Sociology, Rice University (2021)
Comprehensive Exam Areas: Gender & Sexuality and Race/Ethnicity
Dissertation: “Marriageable But Never-Married: Race, Class, Gender and Marriage Culture Among Newly Middle- Class Black Americans”
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Jenifer Bratter, Dr. Sergio Chavez, Dr. Elaine Howard-Ecklund, and Dr. Cymene Howe
Graduate Certificate, Women & Gender Studies, Rice University (2021)
Graduate Certificate, Certificate in Teaching and Learning, Rice University (2021)
M.A. Sociology, Rice University (2016)
Thesis: “The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage and Family among the Academic Elite: The Marriage, Family, and Career Expectations of PhD Seeking Women and Men”
Committee: Dr. Erin Cech, Dr. Jenifer Bratter, and Dr. Elaine Howard-Ecklund
B.A. World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles (2014)
Undergraduate Independent Study: “Colored Romance in the Ivory Tower”
Supervised by: Dr. M. Belinda Tucker
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Class, Marriage and Family, and Qualitative Methods
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Tuthill, Zelma Oyarvide and Marbella Eboni Hill. (2024). “Shouldering the Double-Burden of Homophobia and Racism Alone: Challenges to Seeking Social Support and Finding Community Among Sexual Minorities of Color." Sociological Focus.
Hill, Marbella E., Simon Fern, Rachel Kimbro, and Cayce Hughes. (2024). “‘If I got it, she got it’: Black Mothers’ Food Provision and Symbiotic Mothering.” Journal of Marriage and Family.
Fern, Simon, Rachel Kimbro, Marbella Eboni Hill, and Cayce Hughes. (2023).
“Emergency Food Support Preference and Usage During COVID-19: A
Neighborhood Study of Low-Income Black Mothers’ use of School-Based
Food Distribution and P-EBT.” American Journal of Public Health.Hill, Marbella E. (2022). “Do The Marriageable Men want to Protect and Provide? The Expectation of Black Professional Hybrid Masculinity” Gender & Society.
Hill, Marbella E. (2020). ““You Can Have It All, Just Not at the Same Time”: Why Doctoral Students are Actively Choosing Singlehood” Gender Issues.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AT PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Hill, Marbella E. “ Waiting for Mr. Right to Propose: The Preference for Gender Convention Among College Educated Black Professional Men and Women.”
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Cayce Hughes, Marbella E. Hill, Simon Fern, and Rachel Kimbro. ““Making it Stretch”: How Low-Income Black Mothers Manage Food Security in the Context of COVID-19”
Hill, Marbella E. “Submissive Women: Black College-Educated Women and the Construction of Racialized Hybrid Feminine Identities”
Hill, Marbella E. “Who Is In Control of The Delay? Narrative Accounts of Gender and Ideal Marriage Timing From The Black Middle Class”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2022 Hill, Marbella E., Simon Fern, Rachel Kimbro, and Cayce Hughes. “Foodwork as (Good) Motherwork: The Food-Related Practices of Low-Income Black Single Mothers,” presentation at 117th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2022.
2022 Hughes, Cayce, Hill, Marbella E., Simon Fern, and Rachel Kimbro. ““Making it Stretch”: How Low-Income Black Mothers Manage Food Security in the Context of COVID-19,” presentation at 117th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2022.
2020 Hill, Marbella E. “But Do The Marriageable Men Want to Provide?: Black Professional Men, Hybrid Masculinity, and the “Progressive Husband” Construct,” presentation at 115th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, Virtual, August 2020.
2020 Allen, Marbella E. and Jenifer Bratter. “Having a plan, but not necessarily a partner: narrative accounts of marriage timing for the Black Middle Class,” presentation at 115th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, Virtual August 2020.
2018 Bratter, Jenifer and Marbella E. Allen. “Biracial or Black?: Racial Differences in Marriage Entry for Black, White, and Black-White Adults.” Presentation at the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 2018.
2017 Allen, Marbella E. “The Grey Area: The Marriage and Career Desires and Expectations of PhD Seeking Women and Men.” Presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, Quebec, Canada August 2017.
2016 Allen, Marbella E. “The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage and Family Among the Academic Elite: The Marriage, Family, and Career Expectations of Graduate Students.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic Association Conference, Athens, Georgia, October 2016.
2016 Allen, Marbella E. “The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Among the Academic Elite: The Marriage, Family, and Career Expectations of PhD Students.” Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2016.
2016 Allen, Marbella E. “The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage among the Academic Elite: The Marriage, Family, and Career Expectations of PhD Students.” Presented at the Center for the Study of Women Gender and Sexuality Graduate Symposium, Rice University, April 2016.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2020-2021 Research Assistant for Dr. Rachel Kimbro, Department of Sociology at Rice University (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant)
2017 Research Assistant for Dr. Kevin Fitzpatrick, Department of Sociology at University of Arkansas
2016-2019 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Jenifer Bratter, Department of Sociology at Rice University
2014- 2016 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Erin Cech, Department of Sociology at Rice University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INVITED LECTURES
Course/Program Position Semester Institution
Political Ideologies of Guest Lecture Spring 2022 UCLA
Racial Inequality
WMN Studies: The Family Guest Lecture Fall 2020 Washington State Univ.
Sociology of Family Co-Instructor Spring 2019 Rice University
Inequality and Urban Life Guest Lecturer Spring 2018 Rice University
Social Theory Guest Lecturer Fall 2017 Rice University
Social Theory Teaching Assistant Spring 2016 Rice University
Social Theory Guest Lecturer Spring 2016 Rice University
Sociology of Mental Health Teaching Assistant Fall 2016 Rice University
MENTORING EXPERIENCE
2019-2021 Carnegie Vanguard High School AP Research Mentor
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
2020-2021 Graduate Research Fellowship (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant), Rice University $28, 500
2020 Walter and Helen Hall Graduate Student Paper Award, Rice University $300
2020 Minority Fellowship Program Fellowship, Alternate $0
2019-2020 Rice University Sociology Dissertation Writing Fellowship $28, 500
2018 Social Sciences Research Institute: Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Rice University $5,000
2012- 2013 Undergraduate Research Fellows Program sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, UCLA
2012 Dean of Social Science Research Honors Award, UCLA
2012 Ronald E. McNair Research Scholar’s Fellowship
2009- 2013 MacDougal Endowed Scholarship, UCLA $40, 000
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Qualitative Methods
(June 21-26 2020) Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute For Advanced Doctoral Students, The University of Texas at Austin Latino Research Institute
UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Service Activities at Rice University:
2018-2019 HGSA/SSGSA Travel Grants Committee
2017-2018 Graduate Student Representative Department of Sociology, Rice University
2016-2017 Collaborative Writing Work Group, Sociology Department, Founder
2014-2017 Rice University Black Graduate Student Association, Chair
Other Service Activities:
2022 Session Presider at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, Los Angeles, California August 2022
2016 Session Presider at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2016
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2014-Present American Sociological Association
2021-Present Sociologists for Women in Society