Edited Volumes
Further details on volumes that I have edited or co-edited.
Murphy, Michael P.A. 2027. International Relations in Canada: Understanding the Field. Palgrave Macmillan. (Palgrave Studies in International Relations)
Since the turn of the millennium, sustained attention to the features of international relations in Canada has produced a series of journal articles, book chapters and conference sessions. These interventions have tracked the approaches, assumptions, theories, and methods dominant in research contexts; attitudes towards the field and its subjects revealed through major surveys; the politics and power of language in shaping the field of international relations; the training of the professoriate; and unique strengths in the Canadian academy as differentiated from American international relations. Such investigations have offered a variety of points of agreement and disagreement, leading scholars to conclude: that there is a distinctly “Canadian IR,” that there is nothing sufficiently unique about international relations in Canada to hold it together, or that two or more definable camps exist. This edited volume brings together leading and new voices to provide the first comprehensivetreatment of the question of the status of international relations in Canada.
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SpringerNature: https://link.springer.com/book/9783032341846
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/3032341841
Murphy, Michael P.A. and Misbah Hyder. 2024. Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors. Palgrave Macmillan. (Political Pedagogies Series)
In doctoral programs, graduate students are often encouraged to prioritize their research over teaching. This leads many early career scholars to identify primarily with the role of researcher. This edited collection introduces the term “early career instructor” (ECI) as a novel concept in understanding the experience of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early tenure-track, contingent faculty, and other scholars early in their teaching careers. Including a diverse array of authors, this volume brings together essays on ECI experiences in different institutional and national contexts as well as reflections on current practices for ECI support and mentorship. At a higher level, this volume is also a call-to-action to recognize the importance of teaching in the early career stage.
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SpringerNature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-70733-9
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Teaching-Political-International-Relations-Instructors/dp/303170732X
Frueh, Jamie, Jacquie Ala, Michael P.A. Murphy, and Paul Diehl. 2024. The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. (Political Pedagogies Series)
The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory is a collection that explores how best to teach the systems of thought that organize the study of international relations and global politics. All chapters document and advance intradisciplinary conversations about the challenge of helping students understand the nuances of IR theory. Authors document strategies they have successfully applied to that challenge in a variety of contexts and encourage readers to creatively adapt to the challenges of their own pedagogical contexts. The handbook is organized around four themes – teaching theory for particular audiences and classroom contexts, tips for teaching specific theories, an exploration of pedagogical approaches to teaching theory, and pedagogical considerations specific to courses in geographic regions.
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SpringerNature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-72072-7
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Palgrave-Handbook-Pedagogy-International-Relations/dp/3031720717