Research
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Latest papers
PREFACE
2025 · first author
INTRODUCTION
2025 · first author
Indigenizing Modernism, Modernizing Primitivism
2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $396,644
Morrisseau project: 1955-1985
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $192,454
Growing GRASAC: mobilizing Great Lakes indigenous heritage for the 21st century
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $176,099
Artists and mentors: the emergence of Indigenous modernisms in transnational perspective
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
100 publications.
Indigenizing Modernism, Modernizing Primitivism
Ruth B. Phillips, Norman Vorano
“For We Have Waited a Hundred Thousand Years”: The Indians of Canada Pavilion and Indigenous Curatorial Practices
Linda Grussani, Ruth B. Phillips
The issue is moot: Decolonizing art/artifact
Ruth B. Phillips
“Changing up” the museum: cultural translation and decolonial politics
Ruth B. Phillips
Introduction
Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, Ruth B. Phillips
Morrisseau project: 1955-1985
Principal investigators: Robertson, Carmen
Keywords: art; Anishinaabe painting; storytelling; cultural preservation; modern Indigenous art; Canadian art; art collection; art market; museums; art forgery; visual aesthetics; art history
Growing GRASAC: mobilizing Great Lakes indigenous heritage for the 21st century
Principal investigators: Bohaker, Heidi R.
Keywords: Great Lakes; Aboriginal history; Anishinaabeg; Haudenosaunee; Huron-Wendat; tangible heritage; digital humanities; language revitalization; ethnohistory; digitization; local/global collaborations; community-engaged collaborations; intellectual property
Artists and mentors: the emergence of Indigenous modernisms in transnational perspective
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth B.
Keywords: art; aboriginal; modernism; modernity; transnationalism; primitivism
2010 Arts and Humanities Winner
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth
Developing the GRASAC Knowledge Sharing Database: Expanding Capacity for Integrated Indigenous Language Research and Virtual Space Collaborations
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth
Developing the GRASAC Knowledge Sharing Database: Expanding Capacity for Integrated Indigenous Language Research and Virtual Space Collaborations
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth
Keywords: art history , indigenous peoples, indigenous languages, material culture, museums, digital media, modernism, primitivism
Modern Culture
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth
Keywords: art history , indigenous peoples, indigenous languages, material culture, museums, digital media, modernism, primitivism
Braiding knowledges: Anishinaabe heritage in community perspective
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth B.
Keywords: oral tradition; indigenous knowledge; material culture; law; governance; art; history; museums; cultural studies; anthropology
Aboriginal heritage at home and abroad: an international collaboration for research on Great Lakes cultures and collections
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth B.
Keywords: aboriginal peoples; oral tradition; database; art; material culture; ethnology; indigenous knowledge; museums; history; digital imaging; information technology; international collections
Restoring relationships: a collaborative database of Great Lakes Aboriginal art and culture
Principal investigators: Phillips, Ruth B.
Keywords: Aboriginal; history; art; material culture; ethnology; oral traditions; Indigenous knowledge; language; law; kinship; museums; database; digital imaging; information technology
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Norman Vorano and Ruth Phillips: 3 shared papers
- Gerald McMaster and Ruth Phillips: 1 shared paper
- Alan Corbiere and Ruth Phillips: 1 shared paper
- AAH
- Department of Art History & Art Conservation
- Other History
- Visual arts and media arts
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