Jean-Pierre Murray, Ph.D.
Department
Biography
Jean-Pierre Murray joins the Government Department as an assistant professor of Government. His research and teaching interests include critical security studies, migration, human trafficking, Latin America and the Caribbean, global and regional governance, international organizations, and international law. His current research (and book project) focuses on the securitization of South-South migration in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It explores the roles of elite political actors, civil society organizations, and intergovernmental organizations in constructing or contesting narratives and frames about migration and migrants as national security threats, and the corresponding security-based policy responses.
Education
Ph.D., Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts Boston
M.S., International Studies, Sciences Po Bordeaux
B.S./M.S., Politics and International Cooperation, University of the West Indies
B.S., Political Science, Université des Antilles
Research and Publications
Murray, J. (2024). Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash. International Studies Quarterly, 68(4), sqae139.
Haack, K., Karns, M. P., & Murray, J. (2022). From Aspiration to Commitment: The UN’s “Long March” toward Gender Equality. Global Governance, 28(2), 155–179.
Haack, K., Karns, M. P., & Murray, J. (2020). The United Nations at Seventy- Five: Where Are the Women in The United Nations Now? Ethics & International Affairs, 34(3), 361–371.
Murray, J. (2020). Beyond the Women and Children Bias in Human Trafficking : A Study of Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic. Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, 8(2), 132–150.
Murray, J. (2019). The UNODC and the Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking : Explaining the Organizational ( Mis ) Fit. Journal of International Organizations Studies, 10(1), 107–135.
Murray, J. (2015). International Drug Interdiction: The Narcotisation of United States Colombia Relations. Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, 3(2), 59–91.