Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-

Birth Date
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
Associated Locale
Associated Language
Field of Activity
Indian art
Art, African
Indigenous art
Ethnological museums and collections

found: Her Patterns of power, c1984:t.p. (Dr. Ruth B. Phillips) Can CIP (Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- )

found: Carleton University website, July 25, 2022(Ruth Phillips; Professor Emeritus; B.A. Harvard University, M.A. University of Toronto, Ph.D. 1979, School of Oriental Studies, University of London; as a post-doctoral fellow she extended her research to the indigenous arts of North America; two curatorial projects, Patterns of Power: The Jasper Grant Collection and Great Lakes Indian Art of the Early Nineteenth Century (1984), and the Northeast component of The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples (1988), stimulated her research to include museum representation of non-Western arts; began teaching at Carleton in 1979; in 1997 she was appointed Director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver; in 2003 she returned to Carleton as a Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture; she co-founded GRASAC, the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures; in 2015 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Anthropological Association's Council for Museum Anthropology)