Amanda Murdie

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Amanda Murdie is an American political scientist who is a Regents' Professor & Georgia Athletic Association Professor of International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. In June 2025, she will succeed Richard Utz as the dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology. [1]

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Murdie specializes in the behavior of international nongovernmental organizations and their interactions with states, local populations, and intergovernmental organizations. [2]

Education

Murdie earned a B.S. and M.A. in political science from Kansas State University. Subsequently, she obtained a Ph.D. in political science from Emory University. [3]

Career

After assistant professorships at Kansas State University and the University of Missouri, Murdie took up the post of associate professor at the University Missouri. Subsequently, she became a full professor at the University of Georgia. [3]

Murdie serves on the editorial boards of the International Relations journals Foreign Policy Analysis [4] and International Studies Perspectives . [5]

Research

Murdie is an expert in the role of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in international affairs, human security, human rights, conflict processes, and development. Her first book, Help or harm: The human security effects of international NGOs, was published in 2014 by Stanford University Press. [6] [7]

Awards

References

  1. "Amanda Murdie Named Dean of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts | News Center". news.gatech.edu.
  2. "Amanda Murdie". SPIA.
  3. 1 2 "Amanda Murdie's CV, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia" (PDF).
  4. "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic.
  5. "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic.
  6. Demars, William E. (September 1, 2015). "Help or Harm: The Human Security Effects of International NGOs" . Political Science Quarterly. 130 (3): 576–577. doi:10.1002/polq.12386 via Silverchair.
  7. Boulding, Carew (March 23, 2016). "Critical Dialogue - Help or Harm: The Human Security Effects of International NGOs . By Amanda Murdie. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. 320p. $60.00" . Perspectives on Politics. 14 (1): 179–180. doi:10.1017/S1537592715003552 via Cambridge University Press.
  8. List of Karl Deutsch Award winners, International Studies Association, https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/Karl-Deutsch
  9. List of Frank J. Klingberg Award recipients, International Studies Association, https://www.isanet.org/News/ID/6219/2021--2022-Awards-Recipients
  10. List of Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award recipients, International Studies Association, https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/Quincy-Wright
  11. Mittelhammer, Megan (January 25, 2019). "Scholastic summary: A look at recent awards and honors won by UGA professors". The Red & Black.