MURPHY, Peter 1956-

PERSONAL: Born January 9, 1956, in Australia; son of Harry (a civil engineer) and Joan (Azar) Murphy; partner of Christine Mintrom (an occupational therapist). Education: La Trobe University, B.A. (with first class honors), 1979, Ph.D., 1985.

ADDRESSES: Home—27/183 Kerr St., Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia. office—Thesis Eleven Editorial Office, School of Politics, Sociology, and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3803, Australia; and School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: New School for Social Research, New York, NY, visiting professor and research fellow, 1986; University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, lecturer, 1988-93, senior lecturer in politics, 1994-97; Baylor University, Waco, TX, visiting professor of political science, 1996-97; La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, research fellow at School of Sociology, Politics, and Anthropology, 1997; Looks-mart International (database publisher), senior editor, 1998-2001; Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, senior lecturer in communications, 2001—. Ohio State University, visiting scholar in Hellenic languages and literatures, 1994; Panteion University, visiting scholar in communication and mass media, 1995.

WRITINGS:

(Coeditor) The Left in Search of a Center, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1996.

The Scales of Justice, Humanities (Atlantic Highlands, NJ), 1997.

(With Sophie Watson) Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium, Pluto Press Australia (Annandale, New South Wales, Australia), 1997.

Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World, Humanity Books (Amherst, NY), 2001.

(Coeditor) Agon, Logos, Polis, Franz Steiner Verlag (Stuttgart, Germany), 2001.

(Coauthor) Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism, Continuum (New York, NY), in press.

Contributor to books, including Between Postmodernity and Totalitarianism, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 1992; Troubled Bodies, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 1995; Building Cities, Artmedia Press (London, England), 1999; and What These Ithakas Mean: Readings in Cavafy, Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (London, England), 2002. Contributor to journals, including Diaspora, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Social Sciences Abroad, Praxis International, and Social Research. Coeditor, Thesis Eleven: Journal of Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, 1990—; special issue editor, South Atlantic Quarterly, 1998.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Portal: Civic Power, Geopolitics, and the Origins of Intellectual Capital.