Melanie Murphy

Associate Professor of History

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.

Ph.D., Brandeis University; A.M., Boston College; B.A., Simmons College

  • HIST1108 - World History to 1500
  • HIST1109 - Modern World History
  • HIST2119 - Nineteenth-Century Europe
  • HIST2120 - Europe in the Era of World War
  • HIST2124 - History through Fiction: Event and Imagination
  • HIST2127 - Religion, Society and Europe
  • HIST2140 - History of the Modern Middle East
  • HIST3119 - Individual and Society in European History
  • HIST3504 - From Lenin to Putin: A History of the Soviet Union and its Collapse

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Edouard Louis, The End of Eddy review, NEHA News 48.1 Spring 2019
  • "Honor, Judaism, Modern Judaism" in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (2015). published by DeGruyter. 

PRESENTATIONS

  • April 2016: Presented on "Gentleman's Agreement" in world historical perspective at the New England Regional World History Association
  • November 2015: Presented a paper at the PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) on Bildung and the Holocaust