{"id":3846,"date":"2021-04-08T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/culturalmediations\/?page_id=3846"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:04:33","slug":"ruth-and-mark-phillips-professorship-in-cultural-mediations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/culturalmediations\/ruth-and-mark-phillips-professorship-in-cultural-mediations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations<\/h2>\n

The Ruth and\u00a0Mark\u00a0Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations is\u00a0held on a rotating basis by an ICSLAC faculty member entrusted with making a leading contribution to the program. Building on an established record of interdisciplinary research, the Professorship holder creates synergies and engagement around a topic of specific relevance to the Cultural Mediations\u00a0academic community. The Professorship revolves\u00a0around the delivery of a special topic seminar enhanced throughout the academic year by a program of\u00a0 \u00a0events. It is named in honour of Ruth and\u00a0Mark\u00a0Phillips, two emeritus ICSLAC faculty members\u00a0whose lasting contributions helped shape the Cultural Mediations\u00a0program and the Institute as a whole as a thriving academic environment for interdisciplinary doctoral research.<\/p>\n

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Professor Emeritus Ruth Phillips<\/p><\/div>\n

A renown scholar in the field of critical museology and an art historian who specializes in the Indigenous arts of North America, Professor Ruth Phillips<\/a><\/strong> was for many years the Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture at Carleton University (ICSLAC \/ School for the Study of Art and Culture). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and served as Director of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Anthropological Association\u2019s Council for Museum Anthropology<\/p>\n

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Professor Emeritus Mark Phillips<\/p><\/div>\n

Professor Mark Salber Phillips<\/strong> was an historian of ideas whose scholarship focuses on questions of historical representation. Cross-appointed at Carleton with the Department of History and ICSLAC, he was a visiting Professor at several prestigious universities, and held many distinguished fellowships, including from the Guggenheim and the Yale Center for British Art. His publication On Historical Distance<\/em>\u00a0(Yale, 2013) was awarded the Canadian Historical Association\u2019s Ferguson Prize.<\/p>\n

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Current Professorship Holder:<\/h2>\n

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Dr. Malini Guha<\/a>, (she\/her) is an Associate Professor of Film Studies<\/a> and the 2025-27 holder of the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations. Guha is cross-appointed with the Institute for Studies in Art and Culture and is affiliated with Migration and Diaspora Studies. She is a settler of South Asian descent.<\/p>\n

Guha\u2019s project for the RMPP, \u201cTraction, Flight Becoming: Geographical Thinking Across Disciplines\u201d will facilitate and nurture what scholars Fred Moten and Stefano Harney describe as a \u201ccommon intellectual practice\u201d of\u00a0 geographical thinking across disciplinary divides. This project is both inspired and deeply indebted to the work of abolitionist geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore, alongside activists and organizers Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, all of whom espouse the necessity for \u2018thinking like a geographer\u201d for the building of better worlds.<\/p>\n

You can read a short interview with Guha about the project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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