Colleen Murphy

About

Colleen Murphy is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and holds the title of Roger & Stephany Joslin Professor of Law at the College of Law. She is also a Professor of Philosophy and of Political Science. Murphy serves as the Chair of the Illinois Scholars at Risk Committee and is affiliated with the Illinois Global Institute and The Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security. Her work focuses on issues related to arms control, domestic and international security, and global security studies, contributing to academic and policy discussions in these areas.

Research topics

• Computer Security
• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Mathematics
• Sociology
• Economics
• Risk analysis (engineering)
• Business
• Engineering
• Ecology

Selected publications

• The role of transportation infrastructure on the impact of natural hazards on communities

  Reliability Engineering & System Safety · 2021 · 130 citations

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• Empirical Predictive Modeling Approach to Quantifying Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

  Annals of the American Association of Geographers · 2020 · 37 citations

  Conventionally, natural hazard scholars quantify social vulnerability based on social indicators to manifest the extent to which locational communities are susceptible to adverse impacts of natural hazard events and are prone to limited or delayed recoveries. They usually overlook the different geographical distributions of social vulnerability at different hazard intensities and in distinct response and recovery phases, however. In addition, conventional approaches to quantifying social vulnera…

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• Which consequences matter in risk analysis and disaster assessment?

  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 2021 · 28 citations

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• Transitional justice for historical injustice

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2023-08-11 · 20 citations

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  This chapter explores possibilities for transitional justice for historical injustice, or temporally distant violence. It can also refer to temporally extended abuse. We focus our discussion on two prominent examples of political violence in the past that reverberates into the present: the slavery in the Americas and European colonialism. Descendants of enslaved Africans in the Americas experience structural, state and interpersonal violence and discrimination, and citizens of former European co…

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• Decolonizing Transitional Justice: Soft, Radical or Beyond Reform

  International Journal of Transitional Justice · 2023-11-01 · 18 citations

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  Practices of knowing and being are not isolable; they are mutually implicated.We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are part of the world.We are part of the world in its differential becoming.The separation of epistemology from ontology is a reverberation of a metaphysics that assumes an inherent difference between human and nonhuman, subject and object, mind and body, matter and discourse.

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Recent grants

• Development of a Taxonomy of Acceptable and Tolerable Risk

  NSF · $305k · 2009–2012

• Development of a Taxonomy of Acceptable and Tolerable Risk

  NSF · $223k · 2012–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Paolo Gardoni

  54 shared

• Kevin Leon

  Georgia Southern University

  8 shared

• Lesley Wexler

  Chicago Kent College of Law

  7 shared

• Yi Wang

  North China Electric Power University

  5 shared

• Jennifer K. Robbennolt

  5 shared

• Rosalia Murphy

  5 shared

• Gillian McComeskey

  5 shared

• Christopher Ryan

  American Bar Foundation

  5 shared

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