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 political, cultural, and environmental geography, with regional emphases in Europe and the Middle East. Murphy is Vice President of the American Geographical Society and a Past President of the Association of American Geographers. He co-edited Progress in Human Geography for eleven years, and currently serves as an editor of Eurasian Geography and Economics. In the late 1990s Murphy led the effort to add geography to the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program. He currently chairs the National Academy of Sciences — National Research Council Committee charged with identifying “Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade.”
Alexander Murphy is the author of more than seventy-five 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), Human Geography:
Culture, Society, and Space, 8th ed. (with Harm de Blij and Erin Fouberg; Wiley, 2006), and The European Culture Area,
5th ed. (with Terry
Jordan-Bychkov and
Bella Bychkova Jordan; Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). He 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.