Joseph Murphy
Biography
Joseph Murphy is a PhD candidate whose research interests include stratification, education, and race. Specifically, he is interested in the development of a college-going habitus among potential first-generation students and how the development or inhibition of this habitus leads students to enroll in, persist through, and finish college or to not enroll or leave college before earning a degree.
He is currently conducting an ethnography in a high school to examine the role of school officials in shaping students’ post-high school trajectories.
Degrees
- C.Phil Sociology | UCLA – 2024
- M.A. Sociology | UCLA – 2021
- B.S. Sociology | Clemson University – 2018
Publications
Gaddis, S. Michael, and Joseph Murphy. 2024. “Can Adolescents Acquire Cultural Capital Through Social Capital Access and Exposure? Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Ties to College-Educated Adults. AERA Open 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584241305120
Mobley, Catherine, Susan M. Lord, Joyce B. Main, Catherine E. Brawner, and Joseph Murphy. 2022. “‘Stepping Out’ for Military Service: Challenges Experienced by Students Serving in the Reserves or National Guard. Journal of Veterans Studies 8(3):222–38. https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v8i3.346
Awards & Grants
- Excellence in Teaching Award, UCLA Dept. of Sociology (2022, 2023, 2024)
- AIR NCES Data Institute Fellow (2020)
- Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (2019-2023)
- UCLA Competitive Edge (2019)
Conference Presentations
- Benson, L., Bolding, C., Ogle, J.H., McGough, C., Murphy, J., and Lanning, R. (2019, June). Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Belongingness in Civil Engineering. In ASEE 2019 Annual Conference.
- Brisbane, J., Gallagher, E., Hines, A., Murphy, J., Dunwoody, L.A., Patel, K., Roberson, S., and Gramopadhye, A. (2019, April). Familial Influences Affecting Student Pathways to Engineering and Two-Year and Four-Year Institutions.In 2019 ASEE Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity.
- Murphy, J., Hines, A., and Gallagher, E. (2019, March) The Impact of Extra-Familial Relationships on STEM Major Selection. In South Carolina Educators for the Practical Use of Research 31 st Annual Conference.
- Brisbane, J., Gallagher, E., Pfirman, A., Patel, K., Murphy, J., and Hines, A. (2019, March). Family and Fictive Family Influences on Engineering Students at Two-Year and Four-Year Institutions. In South Carolina Educators for the Practical Use of Research 31 st Annual Conference.
- Marcanikova, M. Gallagher, E., Brown, C., Brisbane, J., Brown, A., Dunwoody, L.A., Frady, K., Hines, A., Murphy, J., Patel, K., Pfirman, A., Roberson, S., and Gramopadhye, A. (2019, March). High School Technology as a Non-Predictor of First College Math Course. In 2019 ASEE-SE Annual Meeting.
- Coleman, M.; Gnegy, K.; Hayes, M.; Johnson, L.; Lambert, V.; Murphy, J.; Pearson, C.; Tennie, B.; Walling, M.; and Prieto, V. (2018, April). Southern life expectancy: Assessing the sex and race gap between states and over time. In Conference Proceedings of the Southern Sociological Society 2018 Annual Meeting.
