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portraitErin Murphy-Graham
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Language and Literacy, Society and Culture

Office: 5621 Tolman Hall
Phone: 510-642-8191
Email: emurphy at berkeley.edu
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Staff Contact: Susana Flores
Office: 5529 Tolman Hall
Phone: 510-643-2496
Email: susana at berkeley.edu

E
rin Murphy-Graham is broadly interested in the role education plays in fostering or inhibiting social change. Her research areas focus on how education can promote gender equity and women's empowerment, the expansion and reform of secondary education in Latin America, and the connection between research and policy. With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, she is currently engaged in a longitudinal mixed methods study investigating the impact of secondary school in the lives of adolescents in 110 rural Honduran communities. She is the author of Opening Minds, Improving Lives: Education and Women's Empowerment in Honduras (Vanderbilt University Press, Spring 2012) and her articles have appeared in journals including International Journal of Educational Development, International Review of Education, Gender and Education, and the American Journal of Evaluation.

Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, Murphy-Graham was an Assistant Professor of International Education at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. She has worked as a consultant to government agencies and NGOs in Honduras, Colombia, Nicaragua, and the Caribbean. At Berkeley she teaches courses on gender and education and international education.



Degrees
Ed.D. Harvard University Graduate School of Education
M.Sc. Oxford University
B.A. Tufts University

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Courses and Professional Programs
EDUC 185: Gender and Education in the Americas
EDUC 285: Globalization and International Education

Workshops

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Areas of Specialization / Interests
Adolescence
Alternative Schooling
Cultural Studies
Democratic Education
Diversity
Educational Equity
Ethnic Issues
Experimental Design In Education
Family Issues
Gender Equity
International Education
Moral and Ethical Studies
Multicultural Education
Parenting Issues
Parenting
Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Politics of School Structure and Governance
Poverty and Children
Public Engagement
Qualitative Methods
Reform Issues
Research Methods
School and non-school Learning Contexts
Schooling in the Global Economy
Social and Emotional Development

Last Modified: 10/3/11