Melanie Murphy

Associate Professor of History
B.A., Simmons College; M.A., Boston College; Ph.D., Brandeis University

Office hours:
Sign-up sheet posted on side door of Room 340(A).

Office: Administration Building, Room 355
Phone: 617-735-9811
Email: murphym@emmanuel.edu

My own work has focused on the relationships between culture and politics. What has art said to authority in the context of fascism, communism, imperialism? Can culture save? I have also done specialized work in European racism.

Courses
HIST1108 - World History to 1500
HIST1109 - Modern World History
HIST2118 - Minorities and Marginality in European History
HIST2119 - Nineteenth-Century Europe 
HIST2120 - Europe in the Era of World War
HIST2123 - Topics in European Women's History
HIST2124 - History through Fiction: Event and Imagination
HIST2127 - Religion, Society and Europe
HIST3119 - Individual and Society in European History

Recent Publications & Professional Activity

Melanie Murphy, Max Nordau's Fin-de-Siècle Romance of Race (Peter Lang, 2007)