Teaching Fellow
Research interests: Decolonizing Museums / Memory Institutions, Decolonizing Research Methodologies, Museum Collections Management, Collections Information Management
E-mail: laura.phillips@queensu.ca
Office hours: By appointment
Education
Ph. D. Candidate [ABD], Cultural Studies, Queen’s University.
M. Phil, Archaeology, University of Bristol, 2009.
PG.Dip, Archaeology, University of Oxford, 2002.
B. A. Honours, Classical Studies, Western University, 1997.
About
Laura Phillips is from a settler family with Western European roots, currently based in Ka’tarohkwi /Kingston, Ontario. She grew up in the south western Ontario Treaty 2/ Treaty 6 / Treaty 21 (Oneida Nation of the Thames, Chippewas of the Thames & Munsee-Delaware Nations territories) region of what is now known as Canada. In her PhD Research she focuses on decolonizing museums / memory institutions, working with other settlers to de-centre and reduce colonial narratives in museum spaces, and to apply decolonizing concepts to her day to day life as she learns the many ways to be accountable for the displacement her on-going presence on this land causes.
Laura teaches adult professional development for the Cree School Board in Eeyou Istchee and co-facilitates an online course for museum professionals, ‘Decolonizing Museums in Practice’ with Heather George and Nathan Sentance through museumstudy.com. Laura is guest co-editor of the 2021 focus issue of Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Indigenous Collections: Belongings, Decolonization, Contextualization.
Teaching
LLCU 295 003: Unsettling Museums