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Kristin Phillips

 Assistant Professor
 Department of Teacher Education
 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
 116N Erickson Hall
 517-432-9625
Kristin Phillips is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. A sociocultural anthropologist, she studies the politics of education and development in rural Tanzania. She joined the MSU faculty in 2009 after completing a joint Ph.D. in Anthropology and Educational Policy Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison and a two-year fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at University of Virginia. Her current book project, an ethnography of rural development in the Singida region of central Tanzania, is based upon research for her dissertation, which won the 2010 Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).
Phillips is also building on this research to examine how interventions in schooling, food security, health and natural resources shape teaching and learning in rural areas. She co-leads the College of Education’s research and development efforts in Tanzania through MSU’s Tanzania Partnership Project (TPP). She is a core faculty member in African Studies, the Center for Advanced Study of International Development (CASID), Peace and Justice Studies, and the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen).

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