NEW YORK, May 11, 2011 – Eugene Murphy has been appointed associate dean for academic and student affairs for NYU-SCPS, a position that reflects both continuity and a new direction for the School. Murphy, who joined NYU-SCPS in mid-March, is also a clinical associate professor of social sciences, and will assume teaching responsibilities early next year.
Murphy is overseeing the development and approval of new undergraduate and graduate curricula, as well as noncredit programs. He also is charged with expediting the creation of new curricula to appeal to a growing global audience. In addition, Murphy is working with divisional deans, academic program heads, and their student affairs staffs to ensure that NYU-SCPS continues to provide seamless support to students. Moreover, he will be at the center of advancing collaborations, both within NYU-SCPS and with other NYU schools.
Given the growing place of international students within the NYU-SCPS community and the School’s ambitions to expand offerings within the NYU Global Network, Murphy will develop NYU-SCPS protocols and the schoolwide support infrastructure required to augment services for international students.
“All of these expectations can only be achieved by someone with both relevant academic and administrative experience, as well as a record of building collaborative structures and trust and bringing order to a multidimensional enterprise,” says Dean Robert S. Lapiner.
For the past decade, Murphy has been a leader in the NYU Office of Global Education where, as senior director of academic support, he was primarily responsible for the development of the curricula at NYU’s 10 Academic and Research Centers overseas and was involved in initial planning for the academic programs of two centers due to open soon (in Sydney, Australia, and Washington, D.C.). Prior to arriving at NYU, Murphy was an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Fairfield University. He also has held adjunct faculty positions at Columbia University, the City University of New York, and the State University of New York, and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s East Asian Institute.
A former Fulbright dissertation research fellow, Murphy earned his B.A. in Sociology from Harvard, and his M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. Additionally, he earned an Advanced Certificate in East Asian Studies from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.