Department of Politics
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Karen Bridget Murray
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Associate Professor
Office: Ross Building, S605
Phone: (416) 736-2100
Email: murrayk@yorku.ca
Accepting New Graduate Students
Degrees
PhD, University of British ColumbiaMA, University of Toronto
BA, University of Toronto
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Chair, Department of Politics, 2020-2023
Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Politics, 2019-2020
Democratic Administration Diploma Coordinator, 2016-2019
Research Interests
Current Research interests: Canadian public policy and urban governance in comparative and transnational perspective (Ireland and the United States); settler-colonialism in Canada (residential schools, settler-colonial cities); democratic administration, biopolitics and political transformation; feminist, anti-racist and decolonizing interpretive methods (genealogy; ethnography; autoethnography) and pedagogies.
- Killam Visiting Professorship in Canadian Studies, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts - 2016
- Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies at Kennesaw State University, Greater Atlanta - 2013
- Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies, McGill University - 2016 (Fall Term)
- Visiting Scholar, Centre for Criminology, University of Toronto - 2009
- York University Research Leader - 2015 and 2018
Books
Publication
Year
Robert Latham, Karen Bridget Murray, Julian von Bargen and A. T. Kingsmith, editors. 2018. The Radical Left and Social Transformation: Strategies of Augmentation and Reorganization. Routledge. Reprint of Special Edition on Augmenting the Left, Global Discourse, 2018, 8(2).
2018
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Governing ‘unwed mothers’ in Toronto at the turn of the twentieth century. In Regulating Sexuality in Early Twentieth Century: The Moral, The Normal, and the Deviant Sexuality in the Early 20th Century: The Canadian Historical Modules Project , Cynthia Comacchio, ed., http://www.visions.nelson.com/module/9780176584429_Module_47.pdf. Invited reprint of article first published in The Canadian Historical Review. PEER REVIEWED.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2012) . The silence of urban aboriginal policy in New Brunswick. In Urban Aboriginal Policy Making in the Municipalities (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press). See the open access penultimate version at The Relational Poverty Network: http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Murray_2015_pre-print.pdf. PEER REVIEWED.
2012
Karen Bridget Murray. (2008) .The patterning of political representation in Halifax. In Caroline Andrew, John Biles, Myer Siemiatycki, and Erin Tolley, eds. Electing a Diverse Canada: The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities and Women . Vancouver: UBC Press. PEER REVIEWED.
2008
Karen Bridget Murray. (2007) . Governmentality and the shifting winds of policy studies. In M. Smith and M. Orsini, eds. Critical Public Policy: Canadian Perspectives. pp. 161-184. Vancouver: UBC Press. PEER REVIEWED.
2007
Karen Bridget Murray. (2007) . From Africville to globalville: race, poverty, and urban governance in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In James Jennigs, ed. Race, Neighbourhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital. pp. 133-143. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2007
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . The realignment of government in the provinces. In Christopher Dunn, ed. Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, 2nd ed. Scarborough: Broadview Press, with student research assistance from Victoria Miernicki. PEER REVIEWED.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (1994) . A reconnaissance of Canadian administrative reform during the early 1990s. Co-author Evert Lindquist. Invited reprint of Canadian Public Administration article for Christopher Dunn, ed. Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, pp. 277-300. Scarborough: Broadview Press. PEER REVIEWED.
1994
Book Reviews
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Review of Colonial Genocide in North America, edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Andrew Woolford, and Jeff Benvenuto (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), prepared for the Canadian Journal of History. 50, 3: 353-357.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2011/2012) . Review of Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Wordsworth, edited by Jane Pulkingham. BC Studies, 172: 141-145.
2011
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . Review of Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy, edited by Sheila Neysmith, Kate Bezanson, and Anne O’Connell, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, Atlantis, 31, 1.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . Review of Tending the Gardens of Citizenship: Child Saving in Toronto, 1880s-1920s, by Xiaobei Chen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, Social History/Histoire Sociale, 39, 77.
2006
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. 2019. Not Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning to See Genocide: Part 1. Active History, October 31.
2019
Karen Bridget Murray. 2019. Not Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning to See Genocide: Part 2. Active History, November 7.
2019
Karen Bridget Murray (with Clinton Debogorski, Magdalena Milosz, and Martha Walls. 2019. Education 'After' Residential Schools. Active History, October 24.
2019
A. T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen, Karen Bridget Murray, and Robert Latham. Augmenting the Left. 2018. Global Discourse, 8 (2).
2018
Karen Bridget Murray. 2018. Epigenetics and Politics in the Colonial Present. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 43(4): 344-388.
2018
Karen Bridget Murray. 2017. The violence within: Canadian modern statehood and the pan-territorial residential school ideal. Canadian Journal of Political Science. PEER REVIEWED. Nominated for the John McMenemy best article prize.
2017
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Bio-gentrification: vulnerability bio-value chains in gentrifying neighbourhoods. Urban Geography, 36, 2: 277-299. See the open access penultimate version available at The Relational Poverty Network, http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/bio-gentrification-vulnerability-bio-value-chains-in-gentrifying-neighbourhoods/ PEER REVIEWED.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Reclaiming the people’s memory. In Jody Berland, ed. Canada Watch: The Politics of Evidence, http://robarts.info.yorku.ca/canada-watch/.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Facing down R. B. Bennett, ActiveHistory.ca, September 30, http://activehistory.ca/2015/09/facing-down-r-b-bennett/.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Reclaiming the people's memory, ActiveHistory.ca. Invited reprint of article published in Canada Watch: The Politics of Evidence, September 23, 2015, http://activehistory.ca/2015/09/reclaiming-the-peoples-memory/
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2014) . Feminization through poverty. Politics and Culture: Materialist Feminisms against Neoliberalisms, March 10, https://politicsandculture.org/2014/03/10/feminization-through-poverty-by-karen-bridget-murray/. PEER REVIEWED.
2014
Karen Bridget Murray. (2011) . Making space in Vancouver’s East End from Leonard Marsh to the Vancouver Agreement." BC Studies, 169: 7-49, http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/viewFile/446/2301. PEER REVIEWED.
2011
Karen Bridget Murray. (2010) . Urban poverty and spatialized governmentalities in Vancouver: a study of Grandview Woodland, Transdisciplinary Studies in Population Health, 2, 2: 98-111.
2010
Karen Bridget Murray, et al. (2006) . The voluntary sector and the realignment of government: a street-level study. Canadian Public Administration, 49, 3, 375-392. PEER REVIEWED.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . Lay acquiescence to medical dominance: reflections on the active citizenship thesis. Social Theory and Health, 4, 2: 109-127. With Jacqueline Low. PEER REVIEWED.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (2005) . Too little, too slow, too late: raining on the Human Rights Act amendment parade in New Brunswick. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 55: 27-31.
2005
Karen Bridget Murray. (2004) . Governing ‘unwed mothers’ in Toronto at the turn of the twentieth century. Canadian Historical Review, 85, 2: 253-276. PEER REVIEWED.
2004
Karen Bridget Murray. (2004) . Do not disturb: "vulnerable populations" in Canadian federal government policy discourses and practices. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 13, 1: 50-69. PEER REVIEWED.
2004
Karen Bridget Murray. (1994) . A reconnaissance of Canadian administrative reform during the early 1990s. Canadian Public Administration, 37, 3: 468-489, with Evert Lindquist. PEER REVIEWED.
1994
Policy Papers
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. (2008) . Challenging discourses in health policy research: the case of "lone mothers." Halifax: Centre for Excellence in Women's Health, pp. 1-12, http://www.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/ace-women-health/ACEWH_health_policy_lone_mothers.pdf
2008
Karen Bridget Murray. (2005) . Grandview Woodland (Vancouver): summary of results. Prepared for the Health, Governance and Citizenship Project, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton), with Margaret Condon of the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia.
2005
Karen Bridget Murray. (2005) . The toils of two cities: governing health and citizenship in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. Report funded by the Department of Health, Province of New Brunswick.
2005
Other
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray (in collaboration with many York colleagues who contributed ideas, thoughts, and materials). 2020. Remote Teaching in Time of Crisis. Internal Department of Politics Working Document, York University.
2020
Augmenting the Left, Special Edition of Global Discourse, 8(2), guest edited by A.T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen, Karen Bridget Murray and Robert Latham.
2018
Degrees
PhD, University of British ColumbiaMA, University of Toronto
BA, University of Toronto
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Chair, Department of Politics, 2020-2023
Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Politics, 2019-2020
Democratic Administration Diploma Coordinator, 2016-2019
Research Interests
Current Research interests: Canadian public policy and urban governance in comparative and transnational perspective (Ireland and the United States); settler-colonialism in Canada (residential schools, settler-colonial cities); democratic administration, biopolitics and political transformation; feminist, anti-racist and decolonizing interpretive methods (genealogy; ethnography; autoethnography) and pedagogies.
Awards
- Killam Visiting Professorship in Canadian Studies, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts - 2016
- Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies at Kennesaw State University, Greater Atlanta - 2013
- Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies, McGill University - 2016 (Fall Term)
- Visiting Scholar, Centre for Criminology, University of Toronto - 2009
- York University Research Leader - 2015 and 2018
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Governing ‘unwed mothers’ in Toronto at the turn of the twentieth century. In Regulating Sexuality in Early Twentieth Century: The Moral, The Normal, and the Deviant Sexuality in the Early 20th Century: The Canadian Historical Modules Project , Cynthia Comacchio, ed., http://www.visions.nelson.com/module/9780176584429_Module_47.pdf. Invited reprint of article first published in The Canadian Historical Review. PEER REVIEWED.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2012) . The silence of urban aboriginal policy in New Brunswick. In Urban Aboriginal Policy Making in the Municipalities (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press). See the open access penultimate version at The Relational Poverty Network: http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Murray_2015_pre-print.pdf. PEER REVIEWED.
2012
Karen Bridget Murray. (2008) .The patterning of political representation in Halifax. In Caroline Andrew, John Biles, Myer Siemiatycki, and Erin Tolley, eds. Electing a Diverse Canada: The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities and Women . Vancouver: UBC Press. PEER REVIEWED.
2008
Karen Bridget Murray. (2007) . Governmentality and the shifting winds of policy studies. In M. Smith and M. Orsini, eds. Critical Public Policy: Canadian Perspectives. pp. 161-184. Vancouver: UBC Press. PEER REVIEWED.
2007
Karen Bridget Murray. (2007) . From Africville to globalville: race, poverty, and urban governance in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In James Jennigs, ed. Race, Neighbourhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital. pp. 133-143. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2007
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . The realignment of government in the provinces. In Christopher Dunn, ed. Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, 2nd ed. Scarborough: Broadview Press, with student research assistance from Victoria Miernicki. PEER REVIEWED.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (1994) . A reconnaissance of Canadian administrative reform during the early 1990s. Co-author Evert Lindquist. Invited reprint of Canadian Public Administration article for Christopher Dunn, ed. Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, pp. 277-300. Scarborough: Broadview Press. PEER REVIEWED.
1994
Book Reviews
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Review of Colonial Genocide in North America, edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Andrew Woolford, and Jeff Benvenuto (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), prepared for the Canadian Journal of History. 50, 3: 353-357.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2011/2012) . Review of Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Wordsworth, edited by Jane Pulkingham. BC Studies, 172: 141-145.
2011
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . Review of Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy, edited by Sheila Neysmith, Kate Bezanson, and Anne O’Connell, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, Atlantis, 31, 1.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . Review of Tending the Gardens of Citizenship: Child Saving in Toronto, 1880s-1920s, by Xiaobei Chen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, Social History/Histoire Sociale, 39, 77.
2006
Books
Publication
Year
Robert Latham, Karen Bridget Murray, Julian von Bargen and A. T. Kingsmith, editors. 2018. The Radical Left and Social Transformation: Strategies of Augmentation and Reorganization. Routledge. Reprint of Special Edition on Augmenting the Left, Global Discourse, 2018, 8(2).
2018
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. 2019. Not Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning to See Genocide: Part 1. Active History, October 31.
2019
Karen Bridget Murray. 2019. Not Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning to See Genocide: Part 2. Active History, November 7.
2019
Karen Bridget Murray (with Clinton Debogorski, Magdalena Milosz, and Martha Walls. 2019. Education 'After' Residential Schools. Active History, October 24.
2019
A. T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen, Karen Bridget Murray, and Robert Latham. Augmenting the Left. 2018. Global Discourse, 8 (2).
2018
Karen Bridget Murray. 2018. Epigenetics and Politics in the Colonial Present. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 43(4): 344-388.
2018
Karen Bridget Murray. 2017. The violence within: Canadian modern statehood and the pan-territorial residential school ideal. Canadian Journal of Political Science. PEER REVIEWED. Nominated for the John McMenemy best article prize.
2017
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Bio-gentrification: vulnerability bio-value chains in gentrifying neighbourhoods. Urban Geography, 36, 2: 277-299. See the open access penultimate version available at The Relational Poverty Network, http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/bio-gentrification-vulnerability-bio-value-chains-in-gentrifying-neighbourhoods/ PEER REVIEWED.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Reclaiming the people’s memory. In Jody Berland, ed. Canada Watch: The Politics of Evidence, http://robarts.info.yorku.ca/canada-watch/.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Facing down R. B. Bennett, ActiveHistory.ca, September 30, http://activehistory.ca/2015/09/facing-down-r-b-bennett/.
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2015) . Reclaiming the people's memory, ActiveHistory.ca. Invited reprint of article published in Canada Watch: The Politics of Evidence, September 23, 2015, http://activehistory.ca/2015/09/reclaiming-the-peoples-memory/
2015
Karen Bridget Murray. (2014) . Feminization through poverty. Politics and Culture: Materialist Feminisms against Neoliberalisms, March 10, https://politicsandculture.org/2014/03/10/feminization-through-poverty-by-karen-bridget-murray/. PEER REVIEWED.
2014
Karen Bridget Murray. (2011) . Making space in Vancouver’s East End from Leonard Marsh to the Vancouver Agreement." BC Studies, 169: 7-49, http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/viewFile/446/2301. PEER REVIEWED.
2011
Karen Bridget Murray. (2010) . Urban poverty and spatialized governmentalities in Vancouver: a study of Grandview Woodland, Transdisciplinary Studies in Population Health, 2, 2: 98-111.
2010
Karen Bridget Murray, et al. (2006) . The voluntary sector and the realignment of government: a street-level study. Canadian Public Administration, 49, 3, 375-392. PEER REVIEWED.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (2006) . Lay acquiescence to medical dominance: reflections on the active citizenship thesis. Social Theory and Health, 4, 2: 109-127. With Jacqueline Low. PEER REVIEWED.
2006
Karen Bridget Murray. (2005) . Too little, too slow, too late: raining on the Human Rights Act amendment parade in New Brunswick. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 55: 27-31.
2005
Karen Bridget Murray. (2004) . Governing ‘unwed mothers’ in Toronto at the turn of the twentieth century. Canadian Historical Review, 85, 2: 253-276. PEER REVIEWED.
2004
Karen Bridget Murray. (2004) . Do not disturb: "vulnerable populations" in Canadian federal government policy discourses and practices. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 13, 1: 50-69. PEER REVIEWED.
2004
Karen Bridget Murray. (1994) . A reconnaissance of Canadian administrative reform during the early 1990s. Canadian Public Administration, 37, 3: 468-489, with Evert Lindquist. PEER REVIEWED.
1994
Policy Papers
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray. (2008) . Challenging discourses in health policy research: the case of "lone mothers." Halifax: Centre for Excellence in Women's Health, pp. 1-12, http://www.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/ace-women-health/ACEWH_health_policy_lone_mothers.pdf
2008
Karen Bridget Murray. (2005) . Grandview Woodland (Vancouver): summary of results. Prepared for the Health, Governance and Citizenship Project, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton), with Margaret Condon of the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia.
2005
Karen Bridget Murray. (2005) . The toils of two cities: governing health and citizenship in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. Report funded by the Department of Health, Province of New Brunswick.
2005
Other
Publication
Year
Karen Bridget Murray (in collaboration with many York colleagues who contributed ideas, thoughts, and materials). 2020. Remote Teaching in Time of Crisis. Internal Department of Politics Working Document, York University.
2020
Augmenting the Left, Special Edition of Global Discourse, 8(2), guest edited by A.T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen, Karen Bridget Murray and Robert Latham.
2018
