Alexander B. Murphy, Professor of Geography and Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts & Sciences 173 Condon Hall Phone: 541-346-4571 Winter 2012 Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:30 |
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Professor Murphy is a political-cultural geographer with regional specialties in Europe and the Middle East. His work focuses on the ways in which the changing political organization of space reflects and shapes ethnic, socio-economic, and environmental processes; the foundations and consequences of influential geopolitical ideas and assumptions; the role of legal and political arrangements in mediating human-environment relations; and the importance of geographical education for efforts to address critical challenges facing the contemporary world.
2011-2012 Courses:
FALL 2011
GEOG 441/541: Political Geography
GEOG 609: Entering Graduate School
WINTER 2012
GEOG 620: Theory and Practice of Geography
SPRING 2012
GEOG 202: Geography of Europe
GEOG 621: Current Trends in Geography