Demetrius Miles Murphy, Ph.D.
@DMu_rph
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and African & African Diaspora Studies - researching social infrastructure, flourishing, & (anti-)Blackness in 🇺🇸🇧🇷.
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Joined June 2011
I’m excited to share that I defended my Ph.D. and will join Boston College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies. Thank you to my committee, academic community, and family for their unwavering support and love.
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I am thrilled to co-organize the mini-conference "Black Placemaking and Worldmaking: Space, Power, and Possibility" at the 2026 Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. If the call resonates with you, please submit your work.
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I can’t let my students get finessed out of their own education. I let them know that when learning feels like a chore it’s not by accident. That feeling is inevitable in a society that undermines critical thinking & rewards complacency. I ask them who benefits from that?
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The Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Global Black Geographies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2026. https://t.co/sZ13N1hlet
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University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Vibe won the 2025 Outstanding Book Award for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Winning an International popular music studies book award for a book about the American South speaks to how beautiful our lives and stories are.
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My article, "Stops: How Race, Space, and Policing Shapes Who is Human and Who is Not” is published! I theorize "stops" as moments when the category of human is contested and reified through racialized policing. Precursor to my "Punitive Inertia" article:
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Recent scholarship prompts scholars to think of policing in novel ways. Yet, less attention is given to policing as a physical and ontological act. In this arti...
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NEW PUB 🚨 “Abolitionist considerations and anti-carceral propositions for the carceral university: Examining higher education in prison and systems-impacted students” Many thanks to @GrandmaCheesy77 and Brother Maurice for bringing this to life. https://t.co/tvNFWeVPBh
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The extant higher education literature on the relationship between the university and the carceral system primarily focuses on the role of postsecondary institutions and curricula in the lives of c...
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🚨NEW PUB🚨 In this article, my friend-colleagues and I suggest that rather than thinking about police contact as direct officer-civilian interactions (temporally constrained), we might view and measure it as PERPETUAL (1/4)
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So excited for this piece to finally be in the 🌍!!! Truly a labor of love, and a tribute to Black Sociology and the brilliance of Tuskegee Institute’s anti-lynching activism and sociological interventions. 📝 is open access—enjoy! 🙏🏽✊🏽
New #OpenAccess from DBR: To Agitate a Southern Audience: Revisiting the Impact of Abolition on Tuskegee Institute’s Institutional Interventions, Anti-Lynching Advocacy & Sociological Contributions - Demar F. Lewis IV https://t.co/XHIdOIrEjW
@CUP_PoliSci @demarlewisiv
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A few black agrarian histories in the United States.
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🚨 my first solo-authored publication is officially out! I find that mothers must spend extraordinary amounts of time and money to stay connected to their incarcerated adult children. Read more here: https://t.co/wOy5rO1XHX
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Coming to a bookstore near you this fall! Pre-order link available soon—stay tuned!
First look at the cover design for this important work of sociology by my author @christinajcross coming from @Harvard_Press this fall. I learned much from Christina’s thoroughly researched & beautifully written debut book. You can get your own copy in a few short months.
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March 8 is #WomensDay Learn more about the transmission of health disadvantages from mothers to daughters, and how education can protect from adversities: https://t.co/g47JbZFAvC
@smithgreenaway Yingyi Lin & Abigail Weitzman @USCSociology @gatesfoundation @UTAustinSoc @ASAMedSoc
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🚨 New research alert! 🚨 "Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness Among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes" is out now in @apsrjournal ! 📄 Read it here: https://t.co/gOCbOmqAXa (1/12)
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Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes
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The Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS) at The Ohio State University (Ohio State) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Global Black Studies. https://t.co/t2LrECFolv
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Two days after Michael was killed, I wrote this short piece about what he meant to me – and more importantly, what he meant to us. It was the hardest thing I've ever written. Thanks to @VersoBooks for running it. https://t.co/NmLi3wNfVS
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It is often said that no one loved sociology as much as Michael Burawoy. In the wake of his tragic killing on Monday, at least, we’ve seen a comparable claim in many of the tributes from those who...
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The article is out now! https://t.co/jhb781VofG. As always, I am thankful to Olodumare, Ifa, Sango, the ancestors, and my participants and community. "I argue that Black bodies moving through an anti-Black modernity are always antagonistic entities where through 1/3
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ABSTRACT. Theories of the U.S. carceral state often treat anti-Blackness as the disproportionate suffering of Black individuals across a range of measures
I have an article called, "Punitive Inertia" that's going to drop soon that redefines policing so we can put anti-Blackness, spatial trajectories, and racialized emotions all in the same analytical frame. I hope it helps us rethink our understanding of policing beyond the CJ sys.
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Check out the call for applications for this Problem-Solving Sociology Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop on May 16, 2025, in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins will cover travel w/in the continental U.S., accommodation, & meals. Deadline is Feb. 7, 2025.
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Call for Applications: Problem-Solving Sociology Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop (deadline February 7, 2025) Doctoral students in departments of sociology who have not yet defended their...
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🚨New Pub in Theoretical Criminology. Some welcomed news amidst the fire crisis in LA and a reminder to be continuously grateful for the privilege of living and doing what I love. https://t.co/keBLrPc1iQ
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