Phillip Alan Griffith (born December 29, 1940) is a mathematician and professor emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who works on commutative algebra and ring theory. He received his PhD from the University of Houston in 1968.[1] Griffith is the editor-in-chief of the Illinois Journal of Mathematics[1] In 1971, Griffith received a Sloan Fellowship.[2]