Hildi Hendrickson

Hildi Hendrickson

HILDI HENDRICKSON began teaching anthropology at Long Island University in the fantastically diverse borough of Brooklyn in 1993. She retired as associate professor in 2019. In addition to teaching and chairing her department, she led a university-wide globalization effort and served as president of the university faculty senate. Her fieldwork and archival research focused on the Herero people of southern Africa, and she edited Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. Hendrickson is now an independent scholar and educational consultant dedicated to advancing social justice causes and expanding historical awareness through collaborative public projects. She advocates for the life-changing nature of crossing perceived differences of gender, race, culture, nationality, language, politics, and faith to learn more about being human.