Tarryn Phillips

Tarryn Phillips is a medical anthropologist, author and Associate professor in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. Growing up on unceded Noongar country, Tarryn spent much of her childhood amongst the dusty manila folders of her parents’ small law firm, watching them grow increasingly disenchanted with the law as a tool for social change. Tarryn's writing and interdisciplinary research focuses on power, inequality and social justice in Australia and the Pacific. She has conducted ethnographic research alongside Fijian communities for over a decade on issues of poverty, health, and social justice. 

 

When she is not writing, Tarryn loves hanging out with her three kids, tending to pot plants, and playing futsal.