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 cultural and political
geography, with a regional emphasis on Europe. Murphy is the current
President of the Association of American Geographers and a Vice-President
of the American Geographical Society. He is an editor of both
Progress
in Human Geography and Eurasian Geography and Economics. Murphy
is the author or co-author of more than fifty articles and several books,
including
The Regional Dynamics of Language Differentiation in
Belgium (University of Chicago, 1988); Cultural Encounters with the
Environment, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000 (With Douglas Johnson); and
Human
Geography: Culture, Society, and Space, 7th ed., John Wiley, 2002 (with
Harm de Blij).
Murphy 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. He has also won a number of
awards at the University of Oregon, including the Ersted Award for Distinguished
Teaching(1991) and the Petrone Scholar Award (1996). 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.
He can be reached at 541-346-4571.