Alizé Hill is a Robert Curvin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers University Newark. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in social work in 2026. Her dissertation entitled, Accessing Whiteness, the Process through which Black-White Multiracial Youth and their Parents Navigate the Education System, examined how families leveraged proximity to White privilege to combat anti-Blackness and monoracism, and how these efforts sometimes inadvertently reinforced White Supremacy structures.
More broadly, Alizé’s scholarship examines how institutions such as the education and criminal legal systems perpetuate anti-Blackness and White supremacy—not only through the exceptional cases of incarceration and school suspensions, but also the mundane practices of surveillance, containment, and erasure. Alongside these institutional harms, she explores how marginalized communities adapt to and resist racism through the everyday practices of racial socialization, advocacy, collective organizing, and artistic expression. She received her M.S.W. in Social Work from The University of Chicago in 2020 and her B.A. in Human Development from Cornell University in 2018.
In addition to her academic career, Alizé Hill is a professional circus artist, graduating from the Aloft Circus Arts professional program in 2024. She combines circus and social work to engage in radical imagination and reimagining anti-oppressive ways of moving through the world. She has also worked with organizations such as CIrcEsteem, using circus arts to promote social-emotional learning with children across the Chicagoland area.