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.
HY131/FYE133: Civilization in the Middle East HY104: Culture, Society, and History: The Mediterranean HY104: Culture, Society, and History: Justice, Injustice, and Bodies on the Margins HY252: Magic, Science, and Religion in the Mediterranean HY261: Formation of Islamic Societies HY262: The Modern Middle East: Freedoms and Authorities HY/PS330: Colloquium in History and Political Science
