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 Economics. In 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.