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Sandra Phillips
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Sandra Phillips
Assistant Professor of Finance

(315) 443-1333
Room 612
Finance
Whitman School of Management
sphill01@syr.edu

MBA, St. Louis University
PhD, St. Louis University


 

Research Interests
Professor Phillips' research expertise is in the areas of financial policy and the intersection of financial institutions and consumers, including mortgage and housing discrimination, and predatory and subprime lending. Her extensive experience in the business world encompasses roles as Vice President in corporate finance at Bank of America, Bank Examiner for the State of Missouri, and Management Trainee at Edward Jones and Company.

Selected Publications:
"A House is Not a Home: Effect of Eminent Domain Abuse on the Poor, African Americans, and the Elderly," (2009), Housing and Society, 36(1), (with Sillah, M.R.).

"Reducing Home Mortgage Foreclosures in a Predatory Lending Environment: A Case Study of a Mid-Sized City in Central New York,"  Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol XXVI, April 2009, No 3.

"African Americans and Mortgage Lending Discrimination," Western Journal of Black Studies (WJBS), (lead article), Washington State University Press, Pullman Washington, Volume 27, No. 2, Summer 2003. 

"Bank Financing and Discrimination in the Consumer Mortgage Market: An Application of HMDA Data," Pakistan Journal of Applied Sciences (PJAS), with Scannell, N.J.,Volume 3, No. 1, January 2003.