Michelle Murphy

Professor, Department of History (On Leave to June 30, 2023)
Cross-appointment, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Cross-appointment, School of Environment
Picture of Michelle Murphy standing in front of a wall wearing a green shirt.

Areas of interest

  • Canada
  • Conflict, Violence and Genocide
  • Cultural and Intellectual
  • Economy, Technology and Society
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
  • Medicine
  • State, Politics, and Law
  • United States

Biography

Main Bio

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.