Marjorie Murphy

Professor of History

Professor of History Marjorie Murphy is an expert on teachers unions and the author of Blackboard Unions, The AFT and the NEA, 1900-1980 (Cornell University Press, 1990), which traces the history of the unionization of public school teachers. More generally, Prof. Murphy can comment on the past and future of American public education, American labor history, public sector unionism, and women's history.