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Kim M. Phillips is an Australian–New Zealand academic historian, and is a full professor of history at the University of Auckland, specialising in gender, sexuality and women in the medieval period.
Kim Phillips | |
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| Born | 1950 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of York, University of Melbourne |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | Jeremy Goldberg, Felicity Riddy |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
Phillips comes from Melbourne, Australia, and completed her undergraduate education at the University of Melbourne. She won a Commonwealth Scholarship to carry out postgraduate work at the University of York.[1] She completed her PhD titled The medieval maiden: young womanhood in late medieval England there in 1997. Her doctoral work was supervised by Jeremy Goldberg and Felicity Riddy.[2] Phillips then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1997, rising to full professor in 2021.[3] As of 2024 she is the Head of the School of Humanities.[4]
Phillips focuses on researching women, gender and sexuality in the medieval period. She has a particular interest in mermaids and their evolution alongside ideas about the female body in medieval literature.[3]
In 2013 Phillips was invited to give the Keith Sinclair lecture at the University of Auckland, where she spoke on Strange encounters: Europeans in Asia before the modern era.[5] Phillips received an Early Career Research Excellence Award from Auckland, and a Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award. In 2015 she was nominated for the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History from the American Historical Association, for her book Before Orientalism.[1] She was a plenary speaker at the Medieval Association of the Pacific and the Medieval Academy of America joint meeting in 2020.[1] She was the president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies from 2005 to 2009.[1]
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Authored and edited books
- Phillips, Kim, ed. (2 April 2015). A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350995826.
- Phillips, Kim M. (2014). Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510. Penn Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0894-8. JSTOR j.ctt5hjknr.
- Reay, Barry; Phillips, Kim M., eds. (September 2011). Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-745-62523-2.
- Bailey, Lisa Kaaren; Diggelmann, Lindsay; Phillips, Kim M., eds. (2009). Old worlds, new worlds: European cultural encounters, c. 1000-c.1750. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Vol. 18. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. doi:10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.6.09070802050003050301030208. ISBN 978-2-503-53132-8.
- Phillips, Kim M. (2003). Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1270-1540. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-5964-3.
- Phillips, Kim M.; Reay, Barry, eds. (2002). Sexualities in History: A Reader. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203951170. ISBN 978-1-135-30476-8.
- Lewis, Katherine J.; Menuge, Noel James; Phillips, Kim M., eds. (1999). Young Medieval Women. New York: St. Martin's.
Journal articles
- Kim M. Phillips (June 2005). "The invisible man: body and ritual in a fifteenth-century noble household". Journal of Medieval History. 31 (2): 143–162. doi:10.1016/J.JMEDHIST.2005.03.003. ISSN 0304-4181. Wikidata Q64869503.
- Kim M. Phillips (January 2000). Bodily Walls, Windows, and Doors: The Politics of Gesture in Late Fifteenth-Century English Books for Women. pp. 185–198. doi:10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.3.3642. ISBN 978-2-503-50979-2. Wikidata Q125879661.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - Kim M. Phillips (March 2016). "Travel, Writing, and the Global Middle Ages". History Compass. 14 (3): 81–92. doi:10.1111/HIC3.12301. ISSN 1478-0542. Wikidata Q125879662.
- Kim M. Phillips (April 2007). "Masculinities and the Medieval English Sumptuary Laws". Gender & History. 19 (1): 22–42. doi:10.1111/J.1468-0424.2007.00462.X. ISSN 0953-5233. Wikidata Q125879664.
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