Faculty & Staff
The Murphy Institute has seven “core” faculty members who regularly teach courses designed specifically for political economy majors. It also has faculty affiliates in Economics, History, Philosophy, and Political Science who teach cross-listed, departmentally-based courses.
With grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the basic contours of the undergraduate program were put into place in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided generous support for new facutly positions in international political economy.
The Director of the Murphy Institute has won the Tulane College Student Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Sheldon Hackney Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1989, he was named Louisiana Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
The Murphy Institute’s core faculty are among Tulane’s most respected and productive scholars. They have been recipients of numerous research grants, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Earhart Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and Princeton’s Center for Human Values.
