Michelle Murphy
| Michelle Murphy | |
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| Born | Claudette Michelle Murphy 1969 |
| Nationality | Canadian, American |
| Fields | History of science, philosophy of science |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of Toronto |
| Known for | Regimes of imperceptibility, environmental justice |
| Notable awards | Ludwik Fleck Prize (2008) |
 “Abduction, Reproduction, and Postcolonial Infrastructures of Data”, Michelle Murphy, S&F Online
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Michelle Murphy (born 1969) is a Canadian academic. She is a Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit.
Murphy is well known for her work on regimes of imperceptibility, the ways in which different forms of knowledge become visible or invisible in the scientific community and broader society. Murphy has published several books, including Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers (2006) which won the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science,Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience (2012), and The Economization of Life (2017).
Claudette Michelle Murphy was born in 1969 and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her family background includes Metis and French heritage.
Murphy was inspired by the work of feminists in science in the mid-eighties, including Donna Haraway and Ruth Hubbard. She earned a bachelor's degree in Biology and History and Philosophy of Science and Technology from the University of Toronto in 1992. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998. Her experience at Harvard led her to incorporate analysis of whiteness explicitly into her work on science.
In the 1990s, Murphy worked with Evelyn Hammond and her working group on race and science at MIT. From 1996-2007, she edited RaceSci, a website on anti-racist studies in science, medicine, and technology. With Adele Clarke and others at the [[Society for the Social Studies of Science, she organized panels on race and science.
Murphy is interested in asking the question "What can feminist technoscience be?" She studies the recent history of science and technology with particular attention to economics, capitalism, the environment, and reproduction, with an awareness of colonialism, feminism, gender, race, and queer theory.
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