天涯海角APP

Dr. Hilton began teaching at 天涯海角APP University in 2001. She teaches both halves of the World History survey (HIST 111 and 112), a 200-level course on the Holocaust (HIST 240), and upper-level courses on Modern European History such as Twentieth Century European History, the First World War, and Gender and History. She won the William Oxley Thompson Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2008, the Cora I. Orr Award for Outstanding Service in 2012, and the William Raney Harper Award for Outstanding Scholarship in 2021.

The University named her as the Miriam Schwartz Faculty Scholar in January 2023, which will support educational programming centered on keeping alive the memory of the Jewish Holocaust and the horror that can result from unexamined prejudices, myths, and hatred. In 2022-2023, both the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission and the Holocaust Education Foundation awarded her grants to organize and lead a teaching institute for public school teachers in Social Studies and Language Arts in June 2024. She is the co-editor of Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust, published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2020, with a paperback edition in 2022.

She recently published a chapter 鈥淲e were nobodies except in ourselves we were somebody,鈥� in Reimagining Citizenship, Rachel Chin and Samuel Huneke (eds.), Cornell University Press, 2025. She has a forthcoming chapter, 鈥淭eaching Postwar Holocaust Geographies鈥� in an edited collection with Palgrave entitled Teaching Holocaust Geographies in Middle and Secondary Schools: Volume II: Classroom Inquiries into Space, Persecution, and Civic Engagement.  She has run workshops on teaching the Holocaust for the Holocaust Education Resource and Outreach Program at the University of Connecticut, for the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission, and the Holocaust and Education Resource Center in Milwaukee, WI.