• PhD, Linguistics, University at Buffalo, 2020 

Rahnekawę̀:rih Montgomery Hill, PhD, is a recent alumni of the Linguistics Department, receiving a PhD in linguistics for his dissertation, "Tuscarora Morphology & Language Revitalization" in 2020. He is active in all forms of cultural and linguistic revitalization across the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations, Iroquois) Confederacy. 

His work is primarily centered around the Tuscarora language and research on the Great Law as a historical narrative and also as a cultural device that encodes a complex moral, ethical and metaphysical philosophy. He is interested in all forms of indigenous knowledge and indigenous knowledge creation, as well as the enactment of the knowledge in the forms of the revitalization of traditional governance structures (including such things as tribal wellness courts, traditional counciling, and so on).