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First Name
Mary
Last Name
Phillips
Country
United States
State
NY New York
Affiliation
Lehman College, City University of New York
Website URL
http://maryphillipsphd.com/
Keywords
The Modern Black Freedom Struggle, Black Feminism, and Black Power Studies
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About Me

Mary Frances Phillips is a proud native of Detroit, Michigan. She is a scholar-activist, public intellectual, and Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her interdisciplinary research agenda focuses on race and gender in post-1945 social movements and the carceral state. Her research areas include the Modern Black Freedom Struggle, Black Feminism, and Black Power Studies.

She was selected as a 2021-2022 award recipient for a faculty fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of the Notre Dame and the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship in 2018-2019. Her book manuscript, Sister Love: Ericka Huggins, Spiritual Activism, and the Black Panther Party (under contract with New York University Press’ Black Power Series) is both a critical study and biography of Black Panther Party veteran Ericka Huggins, one of the longest-serving women members in the organization. Her book historicizes women’s prison organizing, resistance, and collision with law enforcement of women political prisoners. She has published journal articles in SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, the Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Western Journal of Black Studies, Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, and the Syllabus Journal. Outside of the academy, her essays have been featured in the Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine blog, New Black Man (in Exile), Colorlines, Vibe Magazine, Black Youth Project, and the African American Intellectual History Society’s blog, Black Perspectives. Her work has garnered media attention in TIME Magazine, the New-York Historical Museum & Library Women at the Center blog series, the Detroit Free Press; BronxNet Cable Television; Bronx News 12; WBAI Pacifica Radio, New York City; and WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio.

Recent Publications

Article, “The Power of the First-Person Narrative: Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party.” Women’s Studies Quarterly: The 1970s’s, 43 (3 & 4) Fall/Winter 2015:33-51.

Article, “The Feminist Leadership of Ericka Huggins in the Black Panther Party.” Black Diaspora Review, 4 (1) Winter 2014: 187-218.

Article, “Black Studies: Challenges and Critical Debates.” The Western Journal of Black Studies, 34 (2) Summer 2010: 273-277.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Women