Elisabeth Murray

Title
Associate Professor
Email
Department
Security Studies and International Affairs Dept
College
College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Genocide, mass atrocity, gender security, environmental security
Elisabeth Murray

Dr. Elisabeth Hope Murray is the president of the International Network of Genocide Scholars and associate professor of Security Studies and International Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.Sc. in Nationalism Studies from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Before coming to Embry-Riddle in 2014, Dr. Murray held a position as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Climate Excellence at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her work focuses on ideology, macro-level violence, genocide, environmental insecurity and the process of radicalization in genocidal states. She has a wide range of published works, including Disrupting Pathways to Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Environments of Security (American Meteorological Society, May 2019) and British Responses to Genocide (Routledge, 2022). She was also awarded Embry-Riddle's first NEH-funded grant, The US Military and Genocide: Perpetration, Liberation, Witness, and Prevention, supporting student veterans as classroom facilitators. 


  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Politics, University of Edinburgh
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Nationalism Studies, University of Edinburgh

  • GCS 115: Intro to International Relat



President, International Network of Genocide Scholars, 2018-present

Executive Secretary, International Network of Genocide Scholars, 2014-2018

Vice Executive Secretary, International Network of Genocide Scholars, 2012-2014

Women in International Security

International Studies Association

American Political Science Association