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Faculty Profile
Murphy, Michelle, Ph.D. Harvard
Associate Professor, St. George Campus
(416) 978-8964
Office: NC 2039
Field: 20th century, gender, race, history of science, technology and medicine, United States, transnational history, social and cultural theory
Professor Murphy's research interests include the history of technoscience, sex, gender, race, environmental politics and capitalism in the United States and in transnational and postcolonial theoretical perspectives. She is the author of Sick Building Syndrome and the Politics of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience and Women Workers (Duke University Press, 2006), which examines the production of uncertainty in environmental politics, exploring this issue in the context of the emergence of new racialized and gendered workplaces and new epistemological and political contestations over the existence of pervasive chemical exposures in twentieth century United States. She is presently finishing a book called Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Technology, Feminist Health, and Biopolitics in the Age of American Empire. Her newest project – The Economization of Life -- concerns the history of cold-war American imperial projects linking fertility, capitalist development, and environment, with a particular focus on Bangladesh. Selected publications include the edited volume Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments (2004), co-edited with Gregg Mitman and Chris Sellers, as well as articles in such journals as Configurations, Labor History, Feminist Studies and edited collections. She is also editor of RaceSci, a website dedicated to the critical study of the concept of race in the history science, medicine, and technology (http://www.racesci.org/). In 2007-08, Murphy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford.
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