Research Areas
Global media, media and the environment, ethnographic method, documentary media, and Latin American media and cultural theory
Biography
Patrick D. Murphy (Ph.D., Ohio University) is the Verizon Chair in Global Broadband and Telecommunication and Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. His research interests include global communication, environmental communication, ethnographicmethod, and Latin American media and cultural theory. He is author of The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2017), and is co-editor of Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformation in Emerging Democracies (SUNY, 2007) and Global Media Studies (Routledge, 2003), and his work has appeared in numerous journals and chapters in edited books. He has also translated into English articles by some of Latin America’s most prominent communication scholars. Past positions include Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Temple Rome (2022-2024), Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Klein College (2013-2022), Chair of the Department of Media Studies and Production in the Klein College (2009-2012), and Chair of the Department of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2003-2009). He has also served as a visiting professor at ITESM-Querétaro (Mexico), was a Global Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University Qatar, a Fulbright-Garcia Robles fellow in Mexico, and a delegate for the American Documentary Showcase series in Latin America. He sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Climate & Society at Dublin City University, the Global Media Ethnography Lab (GMEL) at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and is a founding member of the Global Fusion Consortium. At Temple he is affiliated with the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT), the Center for Sustainable Communities, the Graduate Certificate in Documentary Arts & Ethnographic Research, Latin American Studies, and served on editorial board of Temple University Press.