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Jane Murphy

Assistant Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Jane Murphy joined the History Department of Colorado College in 2007, teaching Middle Eastern history from the rise of Islam to the present and topics in the history of European and Islamic science.

After studying in Ankara, Turkey for a year as a Rotary high school exchange student, she received her BA in mathematics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Yale University. She next spent two years at the University of Jordan and then entered the History of Science program in the History Department of Princeton University, completing her PhD dissertation on the intellectual and social role of the sciences in the works of eighteenth-century Cairene religious scholars (ulema). Professor Murphy’s work has appeared in the journals of the American and British History of Science Societies. 

Regular Classes

HY131/FYE133 Civilization in the Middle East

HY104 Culture, Society, and History: The Mediterranean

HY200 Islamic Cities

HY200 Everyday Life in the Middle East

Courses

  • HY200 – Topics in History: Imagining Jordan: Myth, History, and Identity

Education

    B.A., Yale University, 1995

    M.A., Princeton University, 2001

    Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006

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