Lynn M. Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
phillips@comm.umass.edu
phone: 413-545-0518
fax: 413-545-6399
CURRENT POSITION
2009- Chief Undergraduate Advisor. Department of Communication. University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
2005- Lecturer, Department of Communication. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
EDUCATION
1995 University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Human
Development/Social Psychology. Graduate School of Education.
1984 Trinity College. B.S. Psychology and Business Administration, Summa Cum
Laude. Burlington, Vermont.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2013 Distinguished Teaching Award. Nominee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2013 Flex Grant. Office of Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. $500.
2013 “Best Professors in the Valley.” One of three UMass professors named “Best in
the Pioneer Valley” by Pioneer Magazine.
2013 Women Who Make a Difference Award. League of Women Voters.
2012 Outstanding College Teaching Award. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2010 Davis Fellow. Davis Integrative Experience Fellowship Program. University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. $2000.
2010 Distinguished Teaching Award. Nominee University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2010 Outstanding First Year Student Advocate Award. Nominee. National Resource
Center for First Year Experience and Students in Transition.
2010 Flex Grant. Office of Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. $500.
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HONORS AND AWARDS (continued)
2009 Student Choice Award. Residential First Year Experience Program, Residence
Life, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1995 Award of Distinction. Doctoral Dissertation and Oral Defense. University of
Pennsylvania.
1993 Distinguished University Teaching Award. New School University.
1985 Academic Fellowship. Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
1984 Phi Gamma Nu Award. Award for highest GPA in major. Trinity College.
1984 Summa Cum Laude. Trinity College.
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Phillips, L.M. (2003). Speak for yourself: What girls say about what girls need.
Chicago: Girl’s Best Friend Foundation.
Phillips, L.M. (2000). Flirting with danger: Young women’s reflections on sexuality and
domination. New York: New York University Press.
Phillips, L.M. (1998). The girls report: What we know and need to know about growing
up female. New York: The National Council for Research on Women.
Phillips, L.M. (1997). Unequal partners: Exploring power and consent in adult-teen
relationships. Hackensack, NJ: Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New
Jersey.
FILM PROJECTS
Flirting with danger: Power and choice in heterosexual relationships. (2012). Media
Education Foundation.
Hooking up, hanging out, and friends with benefits: How college students construct and
negotiate sexuality and relationships. In progress. Media Education Foundation.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
The Language of Rape: how news media frame of agency and blame in reports of rape.
Research in progress in collaboration with Journalism colleague Steve Fox.
Perceived Effectiveness of Campus Rape Policies. Interview study in progress in
collaboration with undergraduate LeBovidge Award recipient, Kaitlyn Magnus.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Phillips, L.M. (2009). Everyday courage and the “how” of our work. In L. Reynolds
and J. Reynolds (Eds.). Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear,
Risk, and Hope. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Phillips, L.M. (1999). Recasting consent: Agency and victimization in adult-teen
relationships. In S. Lamb (Ed.). New versions of victims: Feminist struggles with
the concept. New York: New York University Press.
Phillips, L.M. and Fine, M. (1992). What’s “left” in sexuality education? In J. Sears
(Ed.). Sexuality and the curriculum: The politics and practices of sexuality
education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Fine, M. and Phillips, L.M. (1990). Review of Lois Weis’ Working class without work:
High school students in deindustrializing America. Educational Studies, 21(2),
177-182.
KEYNOTES AND INVITED ADDRESSES
Phillips, L.M. (2010). Bridging the academic/student affairs divide: Faculty’s role in
educating the whole student. Invited address presented at the Residential First
Year Experience Awards Ceremony. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Phillips, L.M. (2004). Girls: Current research and issues. Invited address presented at
The University of Illinois at Chicago series, Women Inspiring Hope and
Possibility. Chicago, Illinois, March 17, 2004.
Phillips, L.M. (2003). What girls say about what girls need. Keynote address presented at
the annual meeting of the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention. Chicago,
Illinois, October 24, 2003.
Phillips, L.M. (2003). Flirting with danger. Invited address sponsored by Smith College
and Media Education Foundation. Northampton, Massachusetts, November 17,
2003.
Phillips, L.M. (2003). Preventing and interrupting teen dating violence: The role of
schools. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the Illinois Center for
Violence Prevention. Chicago, Illinois, October 24, 2003.
Phillips, L.M. (2001). Listen to her. Keynote address presented at the first annual meeting
of Powerful Voices in Seattle. Seattle, Washington, September 19, 2001.
Phillips, L.M. (2000). Panelist and invited address presented at the AAUW Educational
Foundation’s conference, Beyond the Gender Wars. Washington, DC, September
14-15, 2000.
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KEYNOTES AND INVITED ADDRESSES (continued)
Phillips, L.M. (1999). From findings to funding: Using research to inform grantmaking
for adolescent girls. Invited address presented at the Ms. Foundation Conference
on Girls. Atlanta, Georgia, January 5, 1999.
Phillips, L. M. (1998). Funding our futures: Research and programs for adolescent girls.
Keynote address presented at the annual meetings of Chicago Women in
Philanthropy. Chicago, Illinois, October 27, 1998.
Phillips, L.M. (1998). Girls’ struggles/girls’ strides: Exploring the realities of adolescent
women. Keynote address presented at Pennsylvania State University’s Girl to
Woman Conference. State College, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1998.
Phillips, L.M. (1998). What we know and need to know about adolescent girls. Keynote
address presented at The National Council for Research on Women Roundtable on
Adolescent Girls. Chicago, Illinois, June 18, 1998.
Phillips, L.M. (1998). Learning from girls about learning for girls: Teen women’s
thoughts on school and community programs. Keynote address presented at the
Valentine Foundation’s conference GirlSpace: Exploring the Development and
Funding of Programs for Girls. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1998.
Phillips, L.M. (1997). Adolescent sexualities: Are we teaching our children well?
Keynote address presented at Planned Parenthood of Dallas and Northeast Texas’
Teen Savvy Conference. Dallas, Texas, November 11, 1997.
Phillips, L.M. (1996). Dimensions of desire: Understanding teens as sexual subjects.
Keynote address presented at the Sixth Annual Sexuality Conference of Planned
Parenthood of Central Pennsylvania. York, Pennsylvania.
Phillips, L.M. (1989). Women, academics, and social change. Invited address presented
at The Conference Celebrating Twenty Years of Co-Education at Yale. New
Haven, Connecticut.
JURIED PRESENTATIONS
Phillips, L.M. (2012). Holistic Advising and Intellectual Community: How
Transforming Advising Programs Can Catalyze the Undergraduate Intellectual
Culture. Paper presented at the National Academic Advising Association
Conference. Connecticut, March 2012.
Phillips, L.M. (2011). Facilitating student transitions into and out of college: A dialectical
peer advising approach. Paper presented at the National Academic Advising
Association conference. Burlington, Vermont, March 10, 2011.
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JURIED PRESENTATIONS (continued)
Phillips, L.M., Mignano, A., & Bercovich, N. (2010). Educating the “whole” peer
advisor: Developing peer facilitated programs that empower the peers. Presented
at the First Annual New England Conference on Student Success, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 8, 2010.
Phillips, L.M. (1999). Controlling the damage: Young women’s experiences of sexuality
and danger. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Psychological Association. Boston, Massachusetts, August 20-24.
Phillips, L.M. (1998). Focus on girls: Developing a new research agenda. Paper presented
at the annual meetings of the National Council for Research on Women.
Washington, DC, October 2, 1998.
Phillips, L.M. (1997). I’m not a feminist but…Young women’s critiques and
transformations of feminism. Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual
Ethnography and Education Forum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 7-9,
1997.
Phillips, L.M. (1996). Developmental impacts of Western images of sexuality and
violence: A study of young women’s experiences of victimization. Paper
presented at the XIVth biennial meetings of the International Society for the Study
of Behavioural Development. Quebec City, Quebec. August 12-16.
Phillips, L.M. (1996). Constructing meanings in hetero-relations: Young women’s
experiences of power and desire. Paper presented at the XXVI International
Congress of Psychology. Montreal, Quebec, August 16-19, 1996.
Phillips, L.M. (1995). Teacher and student self-reflections in/on a critical social
psychology classroom. Paper presented at the Sixteenth Annual Ethnography and
Education Forum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Phillips, L.M. (1994). Beyond sexual dualisms: Multiple meanings of domination in
women’s hetero-relations. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Psychological Association. Los Angeles, California.
Phillips, L.M. (1994). Privileging the private: Interrupting the public discourse in a
women’s studies classroom. Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual Ethnography
and Education Forum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Phillips, L.M. (1993). Theorizing silences, voices, and bodies: Interrupting and inventing
meaning. Chair and discussant of panel at the Fourteenth Annual Ethnography
and Education Forum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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JURIED PRESENTATIONS (continued)
Phillips, L.M. (1993). Using/losing her voice: Consent, coercion, and sexual silences.
Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Ethnography and Education Forum.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Phillips, L.M. (1993). How much do we want to know? The politics of research with/for
the battered women’s movement. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual
Ethnography and Education Forum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Phillips, L.M. (1993). Constructions of desire: Multiple meanings of male aggression in
women’s sexualities. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association
for Women in Psychology. Atlanta, Georgia.
Fine, M. and Phillips, L.M. (1990). Activist feminist research: On mistakes and
possibilities. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American
Psychological Association. Boston, Massachusetts.
Phillips, L.M. (1989). Resources for battered women: A critical examination of ‘options.’
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological
Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pithers, W.D. and Phillips, L.M. (1984). Are schizophrenic subjects used in informationprocessing research typical schizophrenic patients? Paper presented at the annual
meetings of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, Ontario.
INVITED FILM SCREENINGS AND ADDRESSES
Console-ing Passions Conference. Leicester, UK, June 23, 2013.
International Communication Association. London, UK, June 18, 2013.
University of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA, April, 15, 2013.
Greenfield Community College. Greenfield, MA, April 11, 2013.
University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA, February 26, 2013; October 22, 2013.
Amherst Regional High School. Amherst, MA, January 17, 2013.
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, November 2, 2012.
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, February 7, 2014
Deerfield Academy. Deerfield, MA, forthcoming, Spring, 2014.
Massachusetts House of Representatives. Boston, MA, forthcoming, Spring, 2014.
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC CONSULTING
1998-2003
Research Director. Girl’s Best Friend Foundation. Chicago, Illinois.
1996-1998
Research Scholar. National Council for Research on Women. New York,
New York
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RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC CONSULTING (continued)
1996-1998
Educational Consultant and Program Evaluator. Rutgers University,
Department of Health Education. New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1996-1997
Research Director. Unequal Partners Project. Planned Parenthood of
Greater Northern New Jersey, Center for Family Life Education.
1996-1997
Educational Consultant. Brooklyn Friends School. Brooklyn, New York.
1990
Research Consultant and Program Evaluator. The House of Ruth
Battered Women’s Shelter. Baltimore, Maryland.
1994
Facilitator. Philadelphia Public Schools Collaborative. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1988
Research Assistant. Chicago Resource Center Grant. Principal
Investigators: Susan Schechter and Michelle Fine.
1986-1987
Research Assistant. Englewood School District. Englewood, New Jersey.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005-
Lecturer. Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts.
-Introduction to Media and Culture
-Media and the Construction of Gender
-Media and Children’s Culture
-Peer Advising and Leadership Seminar (2-semester course)
Supervision of undergraduate student internships, honors theses, and
independent studies; supervision of graduate independent study, masters
thesis
1991-2000
Faculty Member. Eugene Lang College, New School University (all
college faculty members were unranked).
-Adolescence
-Cultural Psychology
-Developmental Psychology
-Feminist Psychology
-First Year Workshop
-Gender, Power, and Subjectivity
-Peer Advising Seminar
-Perspectives in Social Psychology
-Research as Activism: Social
Science & Social Change
-Teaching and Learning Seminar
-Supervision of Masters these, independent studies, and senior theses.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE (continued)
1995-1996
Adjunct Faculty Member. Montclair State University. Montclair, NJ.
Honors Program
-Social Analysis of Gender
-Ways of Knowing (Epistemology and research methods)
Psychology Department
-Child Psychology
-Educational Psychology
1991
Instructor. Moore College of Art and Design. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
-Gender Roles in American Society
1987-1993
Instructor. University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education.
Graduate Courses:
-Advanced Psychology of Women
-Human Development
-Interaction Processes with Adolescents
-Social Psychology
Undergraduate Courses:
-Human Development
-Educational Psychology: Controversies and Politics in Education
-Psychology and Women
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2009-
Chief Undergraduate Advisor. Department of Communication,
University of Massachusetts.
1995-2000
Director. Eugene Lang College Peer Advisor Program and First Year
Experience.
1994-1997
Director. Eugene Lang College Public Service Leaders Program.
Educational Foundation of America Grant. $3000.
1986-1988
Assistant Dean. University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences
and Department of Residential Living.
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COUNSELING AND HUMAN SERVICE EXPERIENCE
1988
Staff Associate. National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered
Women. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1984-1985
Psychotherapist. Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Aggressors.
Vermont State Department of Corrections. Burlington, Vermont.
1984
Counseling Intern. Vermont State Department of Corrections.
Burlington, Vermont. Supervisor: William Pithers, Ph.D.
1983-1984
Counselor. Women’s Rape Crisis Center. Burlington, Vermont.
ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Ad Hoc Reviewer:
Educational Studies
Gender and Society
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Sex Roles
Sexuality Research and Social Policy
American Psychological Association
International Communication Association:
Feminist Scholarship Division
Children, Adolescents, and Media Division
Ethnography in Education Conference
New York University Press
Temple University Press
Departmental Service:
-Chair, Community, Diversity, and Social Justice Committee (2009-2011)
-Member, Executive Committee (2009-present)
-Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee (2009-present)
-Program and resource development:
 Communication Department Peer Advising Program. Programs include Comm
Student Action Forum, Communication Student Showcase, Comm Movie Night
(multicultural film series), Study Abroad Workshop, Internship Workshop, SBS
Internship Fair, Graduate School Workshop, Professionalism Workshop,
 The Comm Connection: weekly departmental e-newsletter distributed to 1200
recipients
 Undergraduate advising blog
 Faculty advising website
 New student and transfer mentoring program
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University and College Service:
-University Council for Leadership & Community Engagement (2013-present)
-UMatter@UMass Committee, Training and Outreach Subcommittee (2013-present)
-Senior Lecturer Promotion Committee, Chair (Spring, 2013)
-First Two Years Committee, Communications Subcommittee, Chair (2012-2013)
-Sophomore Year Initiative Task Force (2011-2013)
-SBS Scholarship Selection Committee (2010-present)
-Davis Fellow, Davis Integrative Experience Fellowship Program (2010-2012)
-University Advising Network (2009-present)
 Facilitator, peer advising models roundtable
 Presenter, Advising and “The ‘Sophomore Slump’”
-Campus workshops and guest lecturers:
 Residential First Year Experience Program. “Faculty Chats” on gender, race, and
culture in media each semester (2008-present).
 Office of Family Resources. “Dinner on Us” workshops for families with young
children on media, gender development, and children’s culture (2009-2010)
 Center for Teaching and Faculty Development and the Graduate School,
Symposium on Teaching Development. Participant on panel of College
Outstanding Teaching Award recipients.
 Investigative Journalism (Journ 497TJ). Guest speaker on media representation
and language of rape.
 Student Affairs Leaders and Directors. Guest speaker on sexuality and violence.
 New Students Orientation. Summer speaker for three groups (approximately 200
per group) of parents of incoming students.
Related Community Service
Radnor High School, Wayne, PA. Viewpoints on Modern America. Guest Lecturer,
Distinguished Speakers Series, 2013.
Greenfield Center School Board of Directors, Greenfield, MA, 2005-2012.
 Co-treasurer 2008-10
 Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Admissions and Development
Committee
Greenfield Center School, Greenfield, MA. Developed and hosted “Raising Healthy Kids
in a Media Saturated World” media and parenting film and discussion series,
2011-2012.
Amherst Regional High School, Amherst, MA. Women’s Rights Group consultant,
speaker, facilitator on issues of gender, sexuality, and violence, 2010-2011.
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INTERVIEWS IN POPULAR MEDIA
Sample appearances and interviews:
Al Jazeera America-America Tonight (2 appearances)
National Public Radio-All Things Considered
New England Public Radio-Morning Edition
National Public Radio regional affiliates call-in programs
ABC News
CBC News
CNN News
Fox News
Washington Post (front page)
Boston Globe
Philadelphia Inquirer
Huffington Post
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Psychological Association
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Society for the Psychology of Women
International Communication Association:
Children, Adolescents, and the Media
Feminist Studies Scholarship
Instruction and Development
National Academic Advising Association
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