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Kristin D Phillips is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. Her research focuses on sociocultural anthropology with emphasis on inequality, energy, development, and food insecurity. She explores how marginalized communities navigate structural challenges through activism and everyday practices.
Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), including projects on energy burden in the southeastern U.S. (Energy Burden and the Making and Meaning of Home) and energy access/gender dynamics in Tanzania (Energy, Infrastructure, and Gender in Tanzania). She collaborates with Erin Dean on postcolonial infrastructure studies.
Phillips’ research has been recognized with the 2020 Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize for An Ethnography of Hunger, which examines food insecurity and political activism in rural Tanzania. Her current projects address energy justice, environmental ethics, and gendered labor in off-grid communities.
Key themes across her work include: energy transition paradoxes, infrastructure triage, and the intersections of race, class, and gender in resource distribution. She critiques neoliberal development frameworks through ethnographic analysis of marginalized households.
Her research outputs include 8 peer-reviewed articles and books, with a focus on bridging anthropological theory with policy-relevant insights on sustainability and justice.
