About
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. My areas of specializations include 20th century African American Women’s History, the Modern Black Freedom Struggle, and Black Feminism. Education
Ph.D. African American and African Studies, History Cognate, Michigan State University, August 2012
M.A. African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University, 2004
B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences-Health Studies, Specialization in Black American and Diasporic Studies, Specialization in Health and Humanities, Michigan State University, 2002 Publications
A Spirit on a Sword: Ericka Huggins’ Life as a Panther, Educator, and Activist (Book Manuscript in Progress)
“Ode to our Feminist Foremothers: The Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project on Collaborative Praxis and 50 Years of Panther History.” Mary Phillips, Robyn C. Spencer, Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, and Tracye A. Matthews, SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 19 (3) Fall 2017: 1-19. (Forthcoming)
“The Hidden Narratives: Recovering and (Re) Visioning the Community Activism of Men in the Black Panther Party.” Mary Phillips and Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, 5 (1) Fall 2016: 63-69.
“Collaboration Across Disciplines: Implementation in Creative Assignment Development.” Mary Slavkin and Mary Phillips, Syllabus Journal, 5 (1) Summer 2016: 1-14.
“The Power of the First-Person Narrative: Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party.” Women’s Studies Quarterly: The 1970s, 43 (3 & 4) Fall/Winter 2015: 33-51.
“The Feminist Leadership of Ericka Huggins in the Black Panther Party.” Black Diaspora Review, 4(1) Winter 2014: 187-218.
“Black Hair Politics in White Academia: With Reference to Black Studies.” In Integrated but Unequal: Black Faculty in Predominately White Space, edited by Mark Christian (Trenton and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2012) 93-104.
“Black Studies: Challenges and Critical Debates.” The Western Journal of Black Studies, 34 (2) Summer 2010: 273-277. Projects
The Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project (IPHP) is a feminist collective launched by four historians, Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Tracye A. Matthews, Mary Phillips, and Robyn C. Spencer to recover the history of women and gender of the Black Panther Party for the general public.
Memberships
National Council for Black Studies (NCBS)
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
The Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH)
African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
