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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (2000 - 2004)

Ph.D. in Philosophy

Dissertation Title: The Nature and Moral Importance of Political Reconciliation

Dissertation Director: Gerald J. Postema

Dissertation Committee: Bernard Boxill, Thomas E. Hill, Jr., C.D.C. Reeve, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (1998 - 2000)

Master of Arts in Philosophy

University of Oxford (1997 - 1998)

Visiting Student

University of Notre Dame (1993 - 1997)

Bachelor of Arts cum laude

College of Arts and Letters Honors Program

ACADEMIC POSITION

Assistant Professor (Fall 2004 - Present)

Texas A&M University, Department of Philosophy

AREAS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Risk

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE

Medical Ethics, Ethics of War and Peace, Engineering Ethics, Professional Ethics

PUBLICATIONS

Book

1. Colleen Murphy, A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Paolo Gardoni and Colleen Murphy, “Gauging the Societal Impacts of Natural Disasters Using a Capabilities-based Approach," Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management (forthcoming).

2. Colleen Murphy and Paolo Gardoni, “Assessing Capability Instead of Achieved Functionings in Risk Analysis,” Journal of Risk Research (in-press).

3. Paolo Gardoni and Colleen Murphy, “Capabilities-based Approach to Measuring the Societal Impacts of Natural and Man-made Hazards in Risk Analysis,” American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Natural Hazards Review , vol. 10, no.2 (2009), pp. 39-37.

4. Colleen Murphy and Paolo Gardoni, “The Acceptability and the Tolerability of Societal Risks: A Capabilities-based Approach,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 14, no.1 (2008), pp. 77-92.

5. Paolo Gardoni and Colleen Murphy, “Recovery from Natural and Man-Made Disasters as Capabilities Restoration and Enhancement,” International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, vol. 3, no. 4 (2008), pp. 1-17.

6. Colleen Murphy and Paolo Gardoni, “Determining Public Policy and Resource Allocation Priorities for Mitigating Natural Hazards: A Capabilities-based Approach,” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 13, no. 4 (2007), pp. 489-504.

7. Colleen Murphy and Paolo Gardoni, “The Role of Society in Engineering Risk Analysis: A Capabilities-based Approach,” Risk Analysis, vol. 26, no. 4 (2006), pp. 1073-1083.

8. Colleen Murphy, “Lon Fuller and the Moral Value of the Rule of Law” Law and Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 3 (2005), pp. 239-262.

Refereed Book Chapters

1. Colleen Murphy, “Political Reconciliation and International Criminal Trials,” in Larry May and Zach Hoskins (eds.), International Criminal Law and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in-press).

2. Colleen Murphy, “Political Reconciliation, the Rule of Law, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder,” in Nancy Nyquist Potter (ed.), Trauma, Truth, and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 83-110.

Other Publications

Invited Article

1. Colleen Murphy, “Political Reconciliation, the Rule of Law, and Genocide,” The European Legacy, vol. 12, no. 7 (2007), pp. 853-865.

Encyclopedia Entries

2. Colleen Murphy, “Truth Commissions,” in Deen Chatterjee (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer, forthcoming).

3. Colleen Murphy, “Transitional Justice,” in Deen Chatterjee (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer, forthcoming).

4. Colleen Murphy, “Larry May,” in Deen Chatterjee (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer, forthcoming).

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

1. Summer Stipend (2008)

2. Participant, Summer Seminar on “Political Obligation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Human Rights,” Directors: Andrew Altman and Christopher Heath Wellman (June - July 2005)

Texas A&M University

3. College of Liberal Arts Montague Scholar (award given annually to one tenure-track professor in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching) (2009 - 2010)

4. Internal Faculty Fellow, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research (Spring 2008)

5. Stipendiary Fellow, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research (Aug. 2004 - May 2005)

University of Notre Dame

6. Rising Scholar, College of Arts and Letters (Nov. 2005)

7. Finalist, Dockweiler Award (Outstanding Senior Thesis in Philosophy) (May 1997)

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

8. Finalist, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (June 2003 - June 2004)

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

9. Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Aug. 2003 - May 2004)

10. Henry Horace Williams Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Philosophy (Jan. - May 2003)

11. Henry Horace Williams Fellowship, Department of Philosophy (Sept. 1998 - Dec. 2002)

GRANTS

National Science Foundation (NSF)

1. Principal Investigator (PI), “Development of a Taxonomy of Acceptable and Tolerable Risk,” NSF Award #0926025, $304,518 (Sept. 2009 – Aug. 2012)

2. Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI), “Development of a Pilot Graduate Course in Engineering Ethics,” NSF Award #0832861, $254,748 (Sept. 2008 - Aug. 2010)

Texas A&M University

3. Scholarly and Creative Activities Enhancement Grant, Office of the Vice-President for Research, $10,000 (Aug. 2008 and June 2005)

4. Faculty Research Enhancement Grant, College of Liberal Arts, $5,000 (Aug. 2007)

5. International Research-related Travel Grant, College of Liberal Arts, $750 (Dec. 2009, Aug. 2007, June 2006, and July 2005)

6. Instructional Technology Innovation Grant, College of Liberal Arts, $3,000 (June 2007)

7. Course Curriculum Development Grant, Honors Programs, $2,000 (Aug. 2005)

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations

1. Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Workshop on the Ethics of Catastrophe, March 2009, “The Preventive Dimensions of Political Reconciliation”

2. Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Symposium on Place, Time, and Texts: How Do We Keep Knowing?, October 2008, “Must We Know About the Past to Promote Political Reconciliation?”

3. Center for Ethics and Public Policy, University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN, April 2008, “The Role of Trust in Political Reconciliation”

4. Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL, April 2008, “The Role of Trust in Political Reconciliation”

5. University of North Carolina - Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, Conference on Ethical Perspectives on Risk, February 2008, “Ethical Considerations in Judging the Acceptability and Tolerability of Risk”

6. IVR World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Krakow, Poland, Panel on Philosophy and International Criminal Law, Aug. 2007, “Political Reconciliation and International Criminal Trials”

7. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, Interdisciplinary Symposium on ‘Coming to Terms’ with Reconciliation: Critical Perspectives on the Practice, Politics, and Ethics of Transitional Justice, Nov. 2006, Plenary Address, “The Role of Trust in Political Reconciliation”

8. Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Sept. 2006, “Political Reconciliation and Trust”

9. Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Workshop on ICTs and National Reconciliation, March 2006

10. Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Feb. 2006, “Political Reconciliation & Human Rights: Going Beyond Prevailing Understandings”

11. Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, Nov. 2005, “What Should We Want from a Theory of Political Reconciliation?”

12. Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Lon Fuller Seminar, May 2005, “Reconciliation, the Rule of Law, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder”

13. Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Jan. 2005, “South Africa in Transition”

14. Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Feb. 2004, “Political Reconciliation and the Rule of Law”

15. Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, Feb. 2004, “Political Reconciliation and the Rule of Law”

16. Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, Jan. 2004, “Political Reconciliation and the Rule of Law”

17. Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Sept. 2003, “Political Reconciliation and the Rule of Law”

Refereed Conference Presentations

18. Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2010, “Confronting Wrongdoing: The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice”

19. International Development Ethics Association, Valencia, Spain, Dec. 2009, “Evaluating the Source of the Risks due to Natural Hazards”

20. Association for Political Theory, College Station, TX, Oct. 2009, “Law, Transitional Justice, and Moral Agency”

21. Human Development and Capability Association, Lima, Peru, Sept. 2009, “Moral Dimensions of a Capability Approach to Risk Analysis”

22. North American Society for Social Philosophy, Victoria, B.C., Canada, Aug. 2006, “Toward a New Understanding of Political Reconciliation”

23. Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006, “Toward a New Understanding of Political Reconciliation”

24. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Conference on the Ethical Aspects of Risk, June 2006, “Judging the Acceptability of Risks: A Capability-based Approach”

25. Society for Applied Philosophy International Congress, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 2005, “Truth Commissions, Amnesty, and Reconciliation”

26. Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL, April 2005, “Reconciliation after Genocide”

27. Association for Moral Education, Dana Point, CA, Nov. 2004, “Promoting Political Reconciliation in Education”

28. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, New York, NY, May 2004, “Political Reconciliation and Truth-Telling”

29. Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, Conference on Peacebuilding after Peace Accords, Sept. 2003, “Political Reconciliation and the Rule of Law”

30. North American Society for Social Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, July 2003, “What Is Terrorism?”

31. International Political Science Association, Durban, South Africa, June 2003, “What Is Terrorism?”

32. International Society for Intercultural Studies and Research – India, Calcutta, India, Jan. 2001, “After Nationality”

Invited Commentator

33. Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cinncinati, OH, March 2010, critic for author meets critic roundtable discussion of David Crocker, Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

34. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, NY, Dec. 2009, commentator for symposium on Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, Identity, and Memory

35. Public Reason Political Philosophy Podcast Symposium, http://publicreason.net/, April 2009, commentator on Jake Blair, “Why a Defensive War against Mitigated Aggression can be Proportionate. Extending the Right of Self-Defense to our ‘Primary’ Interests”

36. American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL, April 2007, commentator on David Lefkowitz, “Secession, Group Self-Determination, and the Right not to Associate”

37. Committee on International Cooperation, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, April 2007, commentator for Special Session on Political Reconciliation and Transitional Justice. Papers by Daniel Herwitz, “Speaking of Reconciliation,” Larry May, “Genocide, Criminal Trials, and Reconciliation,” and Darrel Moellendorf, “Reconciliation as a Political Value”

38. Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, International Conference on Strategic Peacebuilding: The State of the Art, Nov. 2006, commentator on Daniel Philpott (ed.), The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice, (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)

39. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, CA, March 2004, commentator on James Bohman, “Democracy and Human Rights”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses Offered

Texas A&M University

Undergraduate

1. PHIL111: Contemporary Moral Issues

2. PHIL332: Social and Political Philosophy

3. PHIL480: Medical Ethics

4. PHIL483: Professional Ethics

Graduate

5. PHIL633: Philosophy of Law

6. PHIL662: Seminar in Ethics and Value Theory: International Ethics

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Instructor

1. PHIL280: Morality and Law

2. PHIL272: Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense

3. PHIL170: Social Ethics and Political Thought

Student Research Advising

Texas A&M University

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member

1. Michael Burnside, Department of Political Science (expected completion TBD)

2. Thanh Ngo, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering (expected completion TBD)

3. Michael Beauchamp, Department of History (completed in Fall 2009)

4. James Noland, Department of Philosophy (completed in Spring 2006)

M.A. Thesis Director

5. Margaret McClean, Department of Philosophy (expected completion in Spring 2010)

6. Gregory Bergeron, Department of Philosophy (completed in Spring 2008)

M.A. and M.S. Thesis Committee Member

7. Andre Tahmasebian, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering (expected completion in Spring 2010)

8. Kristen Mathe, Department of Communication (completed in Spring 2009)

9. Jake Greenblum, Department of Philosophy (completed in Spring 2008)

10. Ramesh Kumar, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering (completed in Fall 2007)

11. Craig Gonzales, Department of Philosophy (completed in Summer 2007)

12. Azzurra Crispino, Department of Philosophy (completed in Summer 2006)

13. David Wiens, Department of Philosophy (completed in Spring 2006)

Curricular Development and Innovation

Texas A&M University

1. Developed New Course, PHIL334: Philosophy of Law, Added to Undergraduate Course Catalog (2008)

2. Developed New Course, PHIL633: Philosophy of Law, Added to Graduate Course Catalog (2008)

3. Developed W Course, PHIL480: Medical Ethics, Approved by the Faculty Senate (2007)

4. Participant, Summer Institute for Instructional Technology Innovation, College of Liberal Arts (2007)

SERVICE

To the Discipline

· Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer)

· Manuscript Referee for

- Canadian Journal of Philosophy

- Imprints: Egalitarian Theory and Practice

- International Journal of Transitional Justice

- Journal of Social Philosophy

- Law & Philosophy

- Nous

- Peace and Change

- Politics and Policy

- Science and Engineering Ethics

- Social Philosophy Today

- The Review of Politics

- University of Toronto Law Journal

- Broadview Press

- Georgia Press

- Longman Publishers

- Oxford University Press

- Springer

· Organizer of Special Session on Political Reconciliation and Transitional Justice, Committee on International Cooperation, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, April 2007

· Professional Memberships

- American Philosophical Association (2004 - Present)

- American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (2005 - Present)

- Human Development and Capability Association (2006 - Present)

To Texas A&M University

· Office of the Vice President for Research

- Member, Review Committee for Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities (Spring 2009)

· Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

- Member, Advisory Committee (2009 - Present)

- Chair, Selection Committee for the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship (2009)

- Participant, Roundtable discussion on “How Do We Teach Ethics: Teaching Ethics in Disciplinary Contexts” (Spring 2009)

· Department of Philosophy

- Member, Graduate Program Advisory Council (GPAC) (2005 - 2007, 2009 - 2010)

- Member, Honors and Awards Committee (2007 - Present)

- Member, Colloquium Committee (2006 - 2009)

- Member, Ethics and Value Theory Exam Committee (Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008)

- Member, Engineering Ethics Committee (2006 - 2007)

- Member, Department Head Search Committee (2005 - 2006)

· Women’s Faculty Network

- Member (2004 - Present)