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Michelle Murphy (curator)
Michelle Murphy (born 1969) is a Canadian academic. She is a professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto and director of the Technoscience Research Unit. Murphy is well known for her work on regimes of imperceptibility, the ways in which different forms of knowledge become visible or invisible in the scientific community and broader society. Murphy has published several books, including ''Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers'' (2006) which won the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science, ''Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience'' (2012), and ''The Economization of Life'' (2017). Early life and education Claudette Michelle Murphy was born in 1969 and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her family background includes Métis, Metis and French people, French heritage. Murphy was inspired by the work of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada. Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed its present name in 1850 upon becoming a secular institution. As a collegiate university, it comprises eleven colleges each with substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs and significant differences in character and history. The university maintains three campuses, the oldest of which, St. George, is located in downtown Toronto. The other two satellite campuses are located in Scarborough and Mississauga. The University of Toronto offers over 700 undergraduate and 200 graduate programs. In all major rankings, the university consistently ranks in the top ten public universities in the world and as the top university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
