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

LC control no.	n 85110997
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Phillips, Ruth, 1945- Phillips, Ruth Bliss, 1945-
Associated country	Canada
Associated place	United States Great Britain
Birth date	1945
Field of activity	Indian art Art, African Indigenous art Ethnological museums and collections
Affiliation	Carleton University Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures University of British Columbia. Museum of Anthropology University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies Harvard University
Profession or occupation	Art historians Art museum curators Museum directors
Found in	Her Patterns of power, c1984: t.p. (Dr. Ruth B. Phillips) Can CIP (Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- ) 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)
Associated language	eng