{"id":386,"date":"2017-09-27T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-history\/facultystaff\/katrinaphillips\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:49:07","slug":"katrinaphillips","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/facultystaff\/katrinaphillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katrina Phillips is an Associate Professor of History with a focus on Native history and the history of the American West. Born and raised in northern Wisconsin, Professor Phillips is a proud citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She earned a BA and PhD in History from the University of Minnesota and spent two years on campus as a Consortium for Faculty Diversity fellow before joining the ranks of the Macalester faculty in 2016.<\/p>\n

In her first book,\u00a0Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and Performances of Native American History<\/em><\/a> (which won the Theatre Library Association<\/a> Book Awards 2021 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live performance), Professor Phillips centers what she calls \u201csalvage tourism,\u201d a phenomenon that draws from both salvage anthropology and heritage tourism in order to understand the ways in which communities across the United States have capitalized on the histories of Native nations in the creation of tourism enterprises.<\/p>\n

Her current book project,\u00a0\u201cthe land is the only thing\u201d: Activism, Environmentalism, and Tourism in Northern Wisconsin<\/em>, focuses on approximately a century\u2019s-worth of Red Cliff history, from the Apostle Islands Indian Pageant of the 1920s and the battle over the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore to the creation of the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission, Native American Tourism of Wisconsin, and Frog Bay Tribal National Park.<\/p>\n

In addition to her academic work, Professor Phillips is also a public historian. Her work has appeared in the \u201cMade By History\u201d section of the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>; she\u2019s appeared on\u00a0Native America Calling<\/em>, NPR\u2019s\u00a01A<\/em>, and\u00a0Indigeneity Rising<\/em>; and she\u2019s been quoted in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, the\u00a0Associated Press<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0Indian Country Today<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

She\u2019s written several children\u2019s books, including Indigenous Peoples: Super SHEroes of History (Women Who Made a Difference)<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0The Disastrous Wrangel Island Expedition<\/em><\/a>. She\u2019s also served as a historical and cultural consultant for books like\u00a0Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Journey of York: The Unsung Hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> In addition to her work with children\u2019s books, she revised the \u201cIndigenous People\u2019s History\u201d module for Capstone\u2019s PebbleGo Next in 2023.<\/p>\n

At Macalester, Professor Phillips\u2019s annual courses include Native History to 1871, Native History since 1871, and Imagining the American West. She\u2019s also taught courses such as Native Minnesota, Native American Activism, and Native Americans in Popular Culture.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications and Appearances<\/strong><\/p>\n