Kevin P. Murphy
271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Kevin P. Murphy is Northrop Professor, Professor of History, and affiliate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He also co-founded UMN’s Heritage Studies and Public History graduate program, a collaboration with the Minnesota Historical Society, which has received support from the Mellon Foundation. Murphy has published in the fields of public history, gender history, and queer studies. He is the author of Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform (Columbia, 2008) and, with the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, Queer Twin Cities (Minnesota, 2010). His work appears in academic journals including The Oral History Review, Critical Ethnic Studies, and the Radical History Review. He has co-edited a number of anthologies and special journal issues on the history of sexuality including, most recently, The Routledge History of American Sexuality (2020). Murphy has been involved in a number of community-collaborative and curatorial endeavors, including Minnesota Transform and the Climates of Inequality, Guantánamo Public Memory Project, and States of Incarceration Project of the Humanities Action Lab. He is currently collaborating on building a new coalitional and collaborative initiative, The Renewal Project: Reckoning with Community-Driven Displacement and Dispossession.
Educational Background
- PhD: United States History, New York University, 2001
- MA: United States History, New York University, 1997
- BS: International Affairs, Georgetown University, 1985
Specialties
- History of sexuality
- Heritage studies and public history
- Comparative history of women and gender
- United States history
- Cultural and intellectual history
- Urban history