معرفی
Michael W. Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at Occidental College. His research and teaching adopt anticolonial and environmental frameworks to examine sociological thought, with a focus on the socioecological implications of racialization, colonialism, and slavery. He joined Occidental in 2022 after serving as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Education:
- B.A., University of San Diego
- M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
His pedagogy emphasizes critical reflection on the intersection of human meaning and action within sociohistorical and ecological contexts. At Occidental, he teaches courses such as Black Ecological Thought, Blackness and Anarchism, and Du Boisian Social Theory and Analysis.
Research employs comparative, historical, ethnographic, spatial, and visual methods. His current book project, The Plantation Problem: An Inquiry into the Environmental Significance of Race, critiques colonial epistemologies in race-environment discourse by centering Rhode Island's colonial legacy.
Professional Affiliations: Published in journals like Environmental Justice, The Journal of World-Systems Research, and Environmental Sociology.
