Melanie Murphy
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Brandeis University; A.M., Boston College; B.A., Simmons College
Office hours: Thursday 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 2:00-3:30 p.m.; Friday 9:00-10:00 a.m.
And by appointment
Office: Administration Building, Room 358
Phone: (617) 735-9811
E-mail: 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 Taught
- 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
Significant Publications/Presentations/Panels
- Melanie Murphy, Max Nordau's Fin-de-Siècle Romance of Race (Peter Lang, 2007)
