Fiona Murphy
Hi, I am Fiona Murphy and I'm an anthropologist based in SALIS, DCU with specialisms in indigenous politics and movements, refugees and mobility studies and sustainability studies. As an anthropologist of displacement, I work with Stolen Generations in Australia and people seeking asylum and refuge in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Türkiye.
In DCU, I am programme chair for the Master's in Refugee Integration. The key thematics in my work include forced displacement, trauma, memory, reconciliation, mobility and sustainability/resilience. I have a strong interest in business and design anthropology and consumer culture theory and have taught a number of different business/design anthropology modules with a particular emphasis on sustainability and CSR.
I have served as secretary of the Anthropological Association of Ireland (2013-2015) and book review editor for the Irish Journal of Anthropology (2011-2014). I am a member of a number of anthropology networks and associations, including the European Association of Anthropologists and American Anthropological Association. I was co-ordinator, with Dr. Katja Siedel, of the Peace and Conflict Anthropology Network of EASA for three years until 2022.
I served as vice-chair of the Anthropological Association of Ireland until 2020. I was a member of the European Association of Anthropologist's executive committee for two years (2021-2023) with the roles of #EASA2022Belfast conference liaison officer, anti-precarity officer and social media officer.
I also chaired the EASA integrity committee for this period of time. I have a particular passion for creative and public anthropologies and I am always interested in experimenting with new forms and genres. I have written for Open Democracy, the Irish Times, Books Ireland, Headstuff Ireland, The Conversation UK, RTÉ Brainstorm, Otherwise Mag, Fiery scribe, Allegra: A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology Blog and for the LSE Review of Books.
I am co-author of Integration in Ireland: The everyday life of African migrants (MUP, 2012). You can watch my TEDX talk entitled, 'Displacement is about all of us'.