Alexander B. Murphy

 

Department of Geography

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon 97403

United States of America

Tel: 541-346-4571

Email: abmurphy@uoregon.edu

 

 

 

 

ALEXANDER B. MURPHY is Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, where he also holds the James F. and Shirley K. Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences.  He specializes in cultural and political geography, with a regional emphasis on Europe.  Professor Murphy is a past President of the Association of American Geographers (2003-2004), a Vice-President of the American Geographical Society, and an editor of both Progress in Human Geography and Eurasian Geography and EconomicsIn the late 1990s he chaired the national committee that oversaw the addition of Geography to the College Board’s Advanced Placement program.  Professor Murphy is the author of more than seventy articles and several books, including The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in Belgium (University of Chicago, 1988), Cultural Encounters with the Environment (edited with Douglas Johnson; Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), and  Human Geography: Culture, Society, and Space, 8th ed. (with Harm de Blij and Erin Fouberg; Wiley, 2006). 


Professor Murphy is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant in 1985, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1991, a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in the mid-1990s, and a National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001.  Professor Murphy holds a bachelors degree in archaeology from Yale University, a law degree from the Columbia University School of Law, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Chicago.