Dr. Michael Phillips

Michael Phillips grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  He is a professor of American history at Collin College in Plano, Texas.  He specializes in the history of American race relations. Phillips received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002.  Phillips’ award-winning dissertation was published by the University of Texas Press in 2006 as White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.  The Texas Historical Commission awarded White Metropolis the T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award for Best Book on Texas History in 2007.  He also contributed essays to The Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negroes’ Western Experience (published in 2011) and The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism (which appeared in 2014.)   Phillips just received a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Community College Faculty Fellowship to study the history of the eugenics movement in Texas. He has taught at Collin College since 2007.