Stephen O. Murray
Stephen Omer Murray | |
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| Born | May 4, 1950 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Keelung Hong, Ph.D. (together since 1981) |
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| Thesis | "Social Science Networks" (1979) |
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| Discipline | Anthropology, Sociology |
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Stephen O. Murray (May 4, 1950 – August 27, 2019) was an American
social sciences
, and as an important editor and organizer of scholarly work in these areas.
Early life and education
Stephen Murray grew up in rural
James Madison College within Michigan State University, Stephen Murray had an undergraduate double major in social psychology and in Justice, Morality, and Constitutional Democracy. He earned his M.A. degree from the University of Arizona in sociology in 1975, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, also in sociology in 1979, and then undertook post-doctoral training in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
(1980–1982).
Career
His work included studies in
social sciences (anthropology, sociology, linguistics), and extensive publications on the historical and cross-cultural social organizations of homosexuality.[3] His main areas of fieldwork were in North America United States Mexico, Canada, and Taiwan (with his partner Keelung Hong).[4] He also co-edited books on homosexualities in sub-Saharan Africa and across the Islamic world with Will Roscoe
.
With
AIDS
.
He held positions on the editorial boards of several social science journals including the Journal of Homosexuality and the Histories of Anthropology Annual, and was a contributor to the online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture, GLBTQ and other reference volumes.[5] He was a regular contributor at epinions.com and associatedcontent.com.
Stephen Murray died in San Francisco, California, on August 27, 2019, of complications of a B-cell lymphoma.[6]
Selected publications
- Murray, Stephen O (1995), Latin American Male Homosexualities, University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-1658-5
- Murray, Stephen O (1996), American gay, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-55193-7
- Murray, Stephen O (1996), Angkor Life, Bua Luang Books, ISBN 978-0-942777154
- Murray, Stephen O; Roscoe, Will (1997), ISBN 978-0-8147-7468-7
- Murray, Stephen O; Roscoe, Will (1998), Boy-wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African homosexualities, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-0-312-23829-2
- Murray, Stephen O (1998), American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and theory groups, Amsterdam, ISBN 978-1-55619-532-7(Rev. ed. of Theory groups and the study of language in North America: a social history (1994).
- Murray, Stephen O (2000), Homosexualities, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-55194-4
- Murray, Stephen O (2002), Pacific Homosexualities, Writers Club Press / iUniverse, ISBN 0-595-22785-6
- Hong, Keelung; Murray, Stephen O (2005), Looking through Taiwan: American anthropologists' collusion with ethnic domination, University of Nebraska press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2435-3
- Murray, Stephen O (2012), Pieces for a History of Gay Studies, Obregón, ASIN B007Q3E6EK
- Murray, Stephen O (2012), Reading Sicily (in English), Obregón, ASIN B0083LLH1O
- Murray, Stephen O (2012), Collected Stories, Obregón., ASIN B008HLQT3G
- Murray, Stephen O (2012), Reading 20th-Century Italian Fiction, Obregón, ASIN B00ABN6UUA
- Murray, Stephen O (2012), 21st-Century Representation of Muslim Homosexualities, Obregón, ASIN B008HKFYG0
- Murray, Stephen O (2013), An Introduction to African Cinema, Obregón, ASIN B00AZMXAE6
- Murray, Stephen O (2013), American Anthropology and Company: Historical Explorations, University of Nebraska Press., ISBN 978-0803243958
References
- ^ Altman, Dennis (1996) Rupture or Continuity? The Internationalization of Gay Identities," Social Text 48(Autumn):77-94 DOI: 10.2307/466787 https://www.jstor.org/stable/466787
- ^ Lewin, Ellen, & Leap, William L. (Eds.). (1996). Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
- ^ Patrick, Jeremy (September 1, 2001), "Stephen O. Murray's Homosexualities (Review)", The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- ^ John Grant Ross (January 13th, 2018) Review: "Looking Through Taiwan: American Anthropologists’ Collusion With Ethnic Domination • Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray" BookishAsia.com The East Asia Book Review. accessed 21 Sep 2019. http://bookish.asia/looking-taiwan-american-anthropologists-collusion-ethnic-domination-%E2%80%A2-keelung-hong-stephen-o-murray/
- ^ "GLBTQ >> about >> Editors and Contributors >> Stephen O. Murray". Archived from the original on 2007-03-24. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
- ^ "Obituary: Stephen O. Murray".
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