Elisabeth Murray

Title: Associate Professor
Email: murraye4@erau.edu Email
Department: Security Studies and International Affairs Dept
College: College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Genocide, mass atrocity, gender security, environmental security

Biography

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.

Education

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

Currently Teaching

GCS 115: Intro to International Relat
GCS 306: Theories of Nations & National

Publications

Panel 14 - US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Inquiries and Initiatives (Elisabeth Hope Murray, Iliriana Lira Blakaj, Noemi Szekely-Popescu, Janos Desi) International Conference on Genocide (2020)
Roundtable 1: Genocide Scholarship: Publishing and the Future of Genocide Research (Raz Segal, Christian Gudehus, Susanne Knittel, Elisabeth Hope Murray, Joanne Pettitt, Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Henry Theriault, Dirk Moses) International Conference on Genocide (2020)
Panel 6 - Collective Reburial in Post-Genocide and Mass-Violence Contexts: Collectively Reshaping Mass Death and Its Aftermath (Elisabeth Hope Murray, Elisabeth Anstett, Clara Duterme, Laura Panizo, Galia Valtchinova) International Conference on Genocide (2020)
Panel 5 - Culture and the Child in Genocide (Elisabeth Hope Murray, Ruth Amir, Tom Lawson, Carolyn Rubavathy) International Conference on Genocide (2020)
Welcome and Opening Remarks (Elisabeth Hope Murray, Karen Gaines, Karen F. Gaines, Rachel McGinnis) International Conference on Genocide (2020)
HS280 Professional Skills in Homeland Security: Incorporating Research Skills (Murray, Elisabeth H., Ph.D.) CTLE - Innovations in Teaching and Learning Week (2016)
HS280 Professional Skills in Homeland Security: Incorporating Research Skills (Elisabeth H. Murray, Elisabeth Hope Murray) Innovations in Teaching and Learning Week (2016)

Publications

Murray, Elisabeth Hope (forthcoming, Spring 2015) Disrupting Pathways to Genocide. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Murray, Elisabeth Hope (2014) ‘The anti-nation: Re-evaluating otherness in the process of radicalization’ in Nations and Nationalism. Vol 20: Issue 1.
Murray, Elisabeth Hope (Spring/Summer 2014) ‘Shifts in Genocide Studies: Genocide, conflict and climate change’ in Institute for the Study of Genocide Issue 49.
Murray, Elisabeth Hope (2011) ‘Under Attack: Genocidal Ideology and the Homeland at War’. Working papers in Nationalism Studies No. 5.

Professional Experience

Memberships and Credentials

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