Provost's Senior Staff

James Hilton

Associate Provost for Academic, Information and Instructional Technology Affairs
Interim University Librarian
Professor of Psychology

Dr. Hilton is responsible for activities related to instructional technology, academic computing, intellectual property and copyright and the associated legal issues, as well as a wide array of academic issues that fall under the purview of the Provost's Office. He is also currently serving as the Interim University Librarian.

Since 1985, Dr. Hilton has been a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Psychology Department and the Institute for Social Research. He has published extensively in the areas of person perception, stereotypes, and the psychology of suspicion. With Charles W. Perdue, he published "Mind Matters," a multimedia CD-ROM that combines text with interactive exercises and multimedia elements and places them in a navigational structure designed to nurture exploration.

Dr. Hilton is a three-time recipient of the LS&A Excellence in Education, has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1997-2000), and received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award. Among the courses that he teaches are graduate courses on person perception and social cognition and undergraduate courses that include Introductory Psychology and Social Psychology. He served as the Chair of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology between 1991 and 2000 and has been fellow of the Sweetland Writing Center and the CIC Academic Leadership Program.

Dr. Hilton received a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Texas in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the social psychology program at Princeton University in 1985.

PROVOST'S SENIOR STAFF