Kevin P. Murphy joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in fall 2002. He received a Ph.D. in U.S. History from New York University in 2001. He is currently at work on a book manuscript based on his dissertation, The Manly World of Urban Reform: Political Manhood and the New Politics of Progressivism in New York City, 1877-1916 (forthcoming Columbia University Press), which received the 2002 Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians.

Professor Murphy teaches courses in urban history, the history of gender and sexualtiy, political history, and cultural history.

Recent publications include "Socrates in the Slums: Homoerotics, Gender, and Settlement House Reform" in Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone, eds., A Shared Experience: Men, Women and Gender in U.S. History (New York University Press, 1998) and "Walking the Queer City," Radical History Review 62 (Spring 1995).