Assistant Professor, Human-Environment Systems, College of Innovation and Design
Vicken Hillis started at Boise State University in 2016 and is an Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Systems in the College of Innovation and Design. He previously worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Institutions, Behavior, and Environment in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University and was a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Davis. Dr. Hillis received his Ph.D. in Ecology from UCD with an emphasis on environmental policy and human ecology as well as an M.S. from the UCD, specializing in international agricultural development. In his current research, he uses a cultural evolutionary perspective to study the dynamics of human behavior and institutions in environmental contexts, employing a range of quantitative methods including computational models, surveys and behavioral experiments.
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About Vicken Hillis
Vicken Hillis started at Boise State University in 2016 and is an Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Systems in the College of Innovation and Design. He previously worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Institutions, Behavior, and Environment in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University and was a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Davis. Dr. Hillis received his Ph.D. in Ecology from UCD with an emphasis on environmental policy and human ecology as well as an M.S. from the UCD, specializing in international agricultural development. In his current research, he uses a cultural evolutionary perspective to study the dynamics of human behavior and institutions in environmental contexts, employing a range of quantitative methods including computational models, surveys and behavioral experiments.
| 2016 - Present | Assistant Professor, Boise State University | |
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| 2015 - 2016 | Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University ‐ Center for Institutions, Behavior, and Environment | |
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| 2013 - 2016 | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Davis ‐ Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior | |
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Disciplines
Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Natural Resources and Conservation, Natural Resources Management and Policy, Sustainability, Biological and Physical Anthropology, Other Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Behavioral Economics, Environmental Studies, Human Geography, Other Social and Behavioral Sciences, Environmental Policy, Human Ecology, and Food Studies
Research Interests
Grants
| 2018 - Present | Integrated Multi-Sector, Multi-Scale Modeling (IM3) Scientific Focus Area |
| Department of Energy | |
| Role: Co-investigator | |
| Colleague(s): DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Alejandro Flores, and Kendra Kaiser | |
| $200,000 |
Honors and Awards
- 2015 - Social Science Immersion Fellow ($2,000 honorarium), National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- 2016 - "Phytopathology" Editor's Pick for First-Authored Paper, American Phytopathological Society
Courses
- Methods in Human-Environment Systems Science
| 2013 | Ph.D. - Ecology, University of California, Davis | |
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| 2006 | M.S. - International Agricultural Development, University of California, Davis | |
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| 1997 | B.A. - Economics, Georgetown University | |
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