Anne Phillips (professor)

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Anne Phillips
Born (1950-06-02) 2 June 1950 (age 74)
Lancaster UK
Nationality British
Known forFeminist political theory, Multiculturalism without Culture
Scientific career
InstitutionsGender Institute and Government Department, London School of Economics

Anne Phillips FBA (born 2 June 1950), [1] is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she was previously Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. [2]

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Profile

Anne Phillips joined the LSE in 1999 as Professor of Gender Theory, and was Director of the Gender Institute until September 2004. She subsequently was appointmented to both the Gender Institute and Government Department before moving to Government. [3] Her field is feminist political theory; [4] she writes on issues of democracy and representation, equality, multiculturalism, and difference. Much of her work can be read as challenging the narrowness of contemporary liberal theory. [2]

In 1992, she was co-winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics published in 1991 (awarded for Engendering Democracy). She was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Aalborg University [3] in 1999; was appointed adjunct professor in the Political Science Programme of the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2002–6.

Research projects

In 2002–4, she carried out a Nuffield funded research project on tensions between sexual and cultural equality in the British courts. [5] [6]

She later worked with Sawitri Saharso, Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam, on a cross European collaboration (also funded by Nuffield) that has explored issues of gender and culture in their specifically European context. This involved two conferences, one in London in 2005 and the other in Amsterdam in 2006, and led to a special issue of the journal Ethnicities (2008). [7]

Published works

Books

Swedish translation Narvarons Politik Studentlitteratur, 2000.
Italian translation of Chapter 2 published in Info/Quaderni VI, n. 7-9, 18 December 2000

Journal articles

Other publications

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References

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  2. 1 2 Chopra, Rohan (7 January 2022). "Interview-Anne Phillips". E-International Relations. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Anne Phillips". LSE. London School of Economics. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  4. "Anne Phillips". Carnegie Counbcil for Ethics in International Affairs. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  5. "LSE Gender Institute Database". Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
  6. final report for this project
  7. Science, London School of Economics and Political. "Department of Gender Studies". London School of Economics and Political Science.