M. Murphy

Areas of Interest

• Feminist, queer, and decolonial science and technology studies
• Environmental justice
• Reproductive justice
• Indigenous feminisms

Murphy supervises graduate students interested in technoscience and data studies; Indigenous feminisms and decolonial thought and praxis; intersectional, transnational, and decolonial feminist, queer, and trans theory; reproductive politics; critical studies of capitalism and infrastructures; environmental justice and Land/body relations; methods.

Biography

M. Murphy is a technoscience studies scholar who theorizes and researches about environmental justice; reproductive justice; Indigenous science and technology studies; infrastructures and data studies; racial capitalism; and the Great Lakes.  Murphy is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice and are jointly appointed to the School of Environment. They are also Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which is a home for social justice, Indigenous, and decolonial approaches to Science and Technology Studies, as well as a Indigenous Environmental Data Justice lab. Their current research focuseson the relationships between pollution, chemicals, colonialism, data, and altered life on the Great Lakes. They are a lead PI at the Acceleration Consortium where they direct a lab on Indigenous science and Ethical Substance. They are the author of three books, The Economization of Life, Seizing the means of Reproduction, and Sick Building Syndrome and the Politics of Uncertainty, as well as the forthcoming co-written  Fear of a Dead White Planet, all with Duke University Press. They are Red River Métis from Winnipeg.

Education

Ph.D. Harvard University, History of Science, 1998 

Teaching