Marie Murphy received her Bachelors degree in Sociology from San Francisco State University in 1999, studied abroad in Bristol, England. She spent 3.5 years in Zambia as a Peace Corps Volunteer where she worked with the Ministry of Education and was able to experience the extreme poverty and the magnitude of the HIV epidemic first hand. Her employment experience includes serving as a Senior Program Associate for the Institute for International Education, a Peace Corps Volunteer/Contractor for the US Peace Corps/Zambia, an Assistant to the Director for Human Sexualities Program at SFSU, and a Study Abroad Alumni Assistant for Office of International Programs, SFSU. Marie speaks Spanish in good fluency, Icibemba in very good fluency and Silozi in fair fluency.

Marie’s broad interests are the “social constructions of deviance, sexuality, poverty, and inequality, race and public policy.” Furthermore, she is “tremendously interested in the social aspects of the epidemic of HIV Disease in the United States, especially the socio-cultural effects on women, families, and low-income communities in urban areas.” Her specializations for the Ph.D. program in Sociology are poverty and deviance.

Mailing Address:
University of California, San Diego
Department of Sociology
9500 Gilman Dr. - 0533
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533

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