About Lance Hill of New Orleans

Dr. Lance Hill is the former founder and director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University and is an expert on the origins and cultivation of Louisiana heirloom mirlitons.

Click Here to read the 2015 Oxford American’s article on Dr. Hill and the mirliton project.

Click Here to read the 2009 Times Picayune article about Lance.

Louisiana Heirloom Mirliton Designated an Endangered Plant by Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity

Contact Dr. Hill on the contact page.