Vic­to­ria Phillips spe­cial­izes in Cold War his­to­ry, cul­tur­al diplo­ma­cy, and inter­na­tion­al rela­tions. Her arti­cles have appeared in such var­ied pub­li­ca­tions as the New York Times, Amer­i­can Com­mu­nist His­to­ry, Dance Chron­i­cle, and Dance Research Jour­nal. She has curat­ed sev­er­al exhibits on dance and pol­i­tics in Europe and Wash­ing­ton, DC. Before her aca­d­e­m­ic career, she was a dancer and then a port­fo­lio man­ag­er on Wall Street. Her papers are held at the Library of Con­gress as the Vic­to­ria Phillips Collection.