Joe Hiller

Fellow, von der Heyden Global Fellows 2025-26

Joseph Hiller is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology with a Certificate in Feminist Studies. During dissertation fieldwork, he collaborated with the Grupo de Prisiones, a legal clinic at the Facultad de Derecho of La Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. His background is in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies (BA, Grinnell College, 2012) and Latin American Studies (MA, Tulane University, 2018). Joseph's dissertation explores how gender, sexuality, and intimacy structure prison worlds in Colombia. Other interests include weird fiction, the páramo, and trans studies.