A.J. Murphy

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Womenâs, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ajmurphy@brandeis.edu

Departments/Programs

History
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Degrees

Columbia University, Ph.D.
Columbia University, M.Phil.
Columbia University, M.A.
Harvard University, B.A.

Expertise

Cold War U.S., military history, business history, and the history of gender and sexuality

Profile

A.J. Murphy is scholar of American military history, the history of capitalism, and the history of gender and sexuality. Their current book project - Pentagon Capitalism: Management Expertise in the Cold War U.S. Military - recounts how defense leaders reorganized the U.S. military on the model of the private, for-profit firm. Murphy’s research has been supported by the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, the Hagley Museum and Library, Harvard Business School, the Hoover Institution, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation.

Courses Taught

HIST/WGS

120b

Queer History in the United States

Awards and Honors

Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library (2020 - 2021)

Dissertation Fellowship in Business and Politics, Jefferson Scholars Foundation and Hagley Museum & Library (2018 - 2019)

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowship, Harvard Business School (2017)

Dissertation Fellowship, U.S. Army Center of Military History (2016 - 2017)

Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowship, Hagley Museum & Library (2016)

History Project Research Grant, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University (2016)

Moody Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation (2016)

Ridgway Military History Research Grant, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (2016)

Silas Palmer Research Fellowship, Hoover Institution Library & Archives (2016)

Scholarship

Murphy, A. Junn. "Making Managers in the U.S. Military: The Case of the Army Management School, 1945-1970." Management & Organizational History 15. 2 (2020): 154-168.

Murphy, A.J.. "The World’s Biggest Landlord: How the U.S. Military Built Its Arsenal of Houses." Business History Seminar, Harvard Business School. Nov 2020.

Murphy, A.J.. "Corporatizing Defense: Management Expertise in the Cold War U.S. Military." Society for Military History, Columbus, OH. 2019.

Murphy, A.J.. "Financial Management in the Cold War U.S. Military." American Historical Association, Washington, DC. 2018.

Murphy, A.J.. "Management Education in the Cold War U.S. Military." Business History Conference, Denver, CO. 2017.

Murphy, A.J.. "The U.S. Army’s Management School for the Cold War World." Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, San Diego, CA. 2016.

Murphy, A.J.. "Creativity and Coercion: The Cultural Idiom in Management Thought." Histories of American Capitalism Conference, Ithaca, NY. 2014.