Ruth Phillips
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{{short description|Canadian art historian and curator (born 1945)}}
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Ruth B. Phillips (born 1945) is a Canadian art historian and curator who specializes in North American aboriginal art. She is an author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of Indigenous studies, anthropology/archaeology, political science, international studies, public policy, Canadian studies, and cultural studies.
Career
Phillips received her doctorate in African art history in 1979 from the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies.{{Cite web|url=https://carleton.ca/arthistory/people/phillips-ruth/|title=Phillips, Ruth|website=carleton.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-02}} Her dissertation focused on masquerade performance by Mende women in Sierra Leone.{{Cite web|url=https://art.unc.edu/event/lectures-in-the-history-of-art-ruth-phillips-professor-of-art-history-carleton-university/|title=Lectures in the History of Art: Ruth Phillips, Professor of Art History, Carleton University|website=art.unc.edu|access-date=2019-03-02}} She became a professor at Carleton University in 1979. In 1997, Phillips became a Director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, where she, alongside three First Nations partner communities and museum staff, created a successful expansion and renewal plan for a $41 million grant to the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia Knowledge Foundation, and the University of British Columbia.
In 2005, Phillips, Heidi Bohaker, First Nations partners, and many other scholars co-founded the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures (GRASAC).{{Cite web|url=https://carleton.ca/grasac/profile/ruth-phillips/|title=Ruth Phillips|website=GRASAC|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-02}} Phillips organized many grants, and supervised the team of GRASAC research assistants in her time as the director. Phillips holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture at Carleton University.[https://carleton.ca/fass/research/chairs-and-distinctions/ruth-b-phillips/ Chairs and Distinctions: Ruth B. Phillips], Carleton University, retrieved 12 March 2015.
Publications
- Berlo, Janet C., and Phillips, Ruth B. (1998) Native North American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-284218-3}}. 1998, and later reprints
- Representing Woman: Sande Society Masks of the Mende of Sierra Leone,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32921792|title=Representing woman: Sande masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone|last=Phillips|first=Ruth B|date=1995|publisher=UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History|isbn=9780930741440|location=Los Angeles, Calif.|oclc=32921792 |language=English}} Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, U.C.L.A., 1995
- Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700_1900, Seattle: University of Washington Press and Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 1998.4
- Unpacking Culture: Arts and Commodities in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, with Christopher B. Steiner, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999
- Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture, co-edited with Elizabeth Edwards and Chris Gosden, 2006
- Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums, 2011
- Museum Transformations, co-edited with Annie E. Coombes, International Handbooks of Museums, 2015
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Category:Canadian art historians
Category:Canadian art curators
Category:Academic staff of Carleton University
Category:Canadian women historians