Michelle Murphy

Michelle Murphy

First Name: 
Michelle
Last Name: 
Murphy
Title: 
Professor
Phone : 
416- 978-8964
Office Location : 
Wilson Hall, New College, Room 2039
Biography : 

Michelle Murphy is a technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent past whose research concerns decolonial approaches to environmental justice; reproductive justice; Indigenous science and technology studies; infrastructures and data studies; race and science; and finance and economic practices. Murphy's current research focuses on the relationships between pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes. Murphy is a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which hosts a lab and is home home for social justice and decolonial approaches to Science and Technology Studies. She is Métis from Winnipeg, from a mixed Métis and French Canadian family.

Education: 
PhD, Harvard University
Personal Website: 
https://technopolitics.wordpress.com/

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Areas of Interest: 

Environmental history, History of Science, Critical and Cultural Theory.

Cross-Appointments: 
Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
School of Environment
Picture: 
Photo of Michelle Murphy
On Leave: 
Friday, July 1, 2022 to Friday, June 30, 2023