Kim M. Phillips is an Australian–New Zealand academic historian, and is a full professor of history at the University of Auckland, specialising in gender, sexuality and women in the medieval period.

Academic career

Phillips comes from Melbourne, Australia, and completed her undergraduate education at the University of Melbourne. She won a Commonwealth Scholarship to carry out postgraduate work at the

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. She completed her

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titled ''The medieval maiden: young womanhood in late medieval England'' there in 1997. Her doctoral work was supervised by

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and Felicity Riddy. Phillips then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1997, rising to full professor in 2021. As of 2024 she is the Head of the School of Humanities. Phillips focuses on researching women, gender and sexuality in the medieval period. She has a particular interest in mermaids and their evolution alongside ideas about the female body in medieval literature. In 2013 Phillips was invited to give the Keith Sinclair lecture at the University of Auckland, where she spoke on ''Strange encounters: Europeans in Asia before the modern era.'' Phillips received an Early Career Research Excellence Award from Auckland, and a Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award. In 2015 she was nominated for the

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from the American Historical Association, for her book ''Before Orientalism''. She was a plenary speaker at the Medieval Association of the Pacific and the Medieval Academy of America joint meeting in 2020. She was the president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies from 2005 to 2009.

Selected works

Authored and edited books

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Journal articles

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References

External links

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