
Contact Information
504 East Pennsylvania Avenue
M/C 594
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
Colleen Murphy is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of law & Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also serves as Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. Prior to joining the Illinois faculty, she was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Dr. Murphy has been a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values and a Visiting Professor at the 4.TU Centre for Ethics in the Netherlands. She is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which received the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010); as well as more than 50 articles and book chapters. She has also co-edited three volumes. Dr. Murphy is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Science and Engineering Ethics. She is member of the Editorial Board of Law and Philosophy and Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. She is a past member of the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) Committee on the Status of Women and APA Committee on Philosophy and Law. Professor Murphy holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Visit her website: https://www.drcolleenmurphy.com
Research Interests
Jurisprudence, Transitional Justice, Political Philosophy, Risk ethics, Engineering Ethics
Additional Campus Affiliations
Roger & Stephany Joslin Professor, College of Law
Professor, College of Law
Director, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
External Links
Recent Publications
Doorn, N., & Murphy, C. (2020). Introduction to the Symposium on Sabine Roeser’s Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26(4), 1887-1890. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00184-7
Gardoni, P., & Murphy, C. (2020). Society-based design: promoting societal well-being by designing sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 5(1-2), 4-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2018.1448667
Murphy, C. (2020). Religion & transitional justice. Daedalus, 149(3), 185-200. https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_01811
Wang, Y., Gardoni, P., Murphy, C., & Guerrier, S. (Accepted/In press). Empirical Predictive Modeling Approach to Quantifying Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1823807
Wang, Y. V., Gardoni, P., Murphy, C., & Guerrier, S. (2020). Worldwide Predictions of Earthquake Casualty Rates with Seismic Intensity Measure and Socioeconomic Data: A Fragility-Based Formulation. Natural Hazards Review, 21(2), [04020001]. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000356