Elizabeth S. Chilton
Elizabeth S. Chilton | |
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Chilton in 2023 | |
| 21st President of the University of New Hampshire | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | James W. Dean Jr. |
| 1st Chancellor of Washington State University (Pullman) | |
| In office January 2022 – June 30, 2024 | |
| Succeeded by | David Cillay (interim) |
| Provost and Executive Vice President of Washington State University (System) | |
| In office August 1, 2020 – June 30, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Mitzi Montoya Bryan Slinker (interim) |
| Succeeded by | T. Chris Riley-Tillman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Elizabeth Susan Chilton |
| Education | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Embodiments of choice: Native American ceramic diversity in the New England interior (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dena Dincauze |
Elizabeth Susan Chilton is an American educator currently serving as the 21st President of the University of New Hampshire. Prior, she was the inaugural Chancellor of Washington State University on the Pullman, Washington campus. A trained anthropologist, Chilton specializes in the pre-colonial archaeology of Northeast North America, as well as paleoecology, cultural resource management, heritage studies and materials science. She is the author of dozens of peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles.