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MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Operation Fly Trap: Gangs, Drugs, and Law. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

“Tattoo Removal: Three Snapshots” [three poems with accompanying images], Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 27, no. 2 (fall 2011).

Brief of �������� on Gang Behavior as Amici Curiae in support of Petitioner Albert W. Florence in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington, et al., No. 10-945, the Supreme Court of the United States, 2011. Topic: strip-searching and gang tattoos. Cited in dissenting opinion with seven additional gang scholars.

“US High Court’s Broken Windows” op-ed, Le Monde Diplomatique, April 13, 2012. With David Brotherton.

“La Storia de Gallo: La Importancia Social del Tatuaje en la Vida de un Pandillero Chicano,” Tinta y Carne, Morin, Edgar and Alfredo Nateras, eds., Cultura contra Cultura: Mexico D.F., 2009.

“Notes from the Margins: Graffiti, Community and Environment in Los Angeles,” Journal of the West, vol. 48, no. 2 (Spring 2009), “Los Angeles and the Urban West,” Kenneth Marcus ed.

“Gang/Anti-Gang Strategic Networks,” Bret, Bernard, Philippe Gervais-Lambony, Claire Hancock and Frederic Landy, eds., Justice et Injustices Spatiales. Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2010.

“Old Threats, New Guises: Securocratic Wars and the Production of Difference in the Americas,” panel discussant, 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Quebec, November 16-20, 2011.

“The Gang-Drug Nexus: Ethnography, Rhetoric, and Suppression,” paper presented at the Soros Justice Fellows Meeting, Open Society Institute, Miami, FL, July 2011.

In 2007-08, Professor Phillips was awarded a Soros Justice Media fellowship. As part of her fellowship, Phillips completed Operation Fly Trap: Gangs, Drugs and the Law, a book examining how federal policies directed at combating drugs and gangs actually generate and sustain the conditions that perpetuate poverty, crime and violence in communities of color.