Meet the Speaker: Sarah D. Phillips

Sarah D. Phillips is a professor of anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. She specializes in medical anthropology, disability studies, and gender studies, with a focus on Ukraine and Russia. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, exploring cultural symbolism surrounding the Chernobyl disaster. Dr. Phillips is the author of Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine and Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine. Her research, supported by grants from the NSF and IREX, has advanced Slavic and East European studies. She also served as Director of Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute.