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Heather Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, specializing in U.S. History with a focus on cultural and intellectual history from the post-1945 era. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has dedicated much of her research to understanding the socio-cultural landscape of 20th century America. Murray's significant publications include her book 'Family: Gays, Parents, Meanings of Kinship in Postwar America,' which received the Lawrence Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians in 2011, and 'Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture' published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2021. Currently, she is engaged in a book project titled 'Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Bullying in 20th Century America' that investigates the historical context of bullying and its relationship with evolving ideas about human nature and violence in the United States. In addition to her individual research, she supervises graduate students and contributes to academic journals, serving as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences and as an associate editor for the American Historical Review.
Department of History