Anthropology

George Hicks served as the chairman of the anthropology department from 1976 to 1982.

He received a bachelor of arts in history from Florida State University in 1960. He received his master's in history from the University of California at Berkley in 1961 and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Illinois in 1969. He received various fellowships including the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War.

Hicks was a member of the American Anthropological Association. He served as freshman advisor at Brown from 1990-95. He was a member of the Undergraduate Grants Committee, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America from 1992-96. In 1995, Brown graduate students named him the Best Graduate Instructor in the anthropology department.