Contact

Mary C. Murphy
Director, Irish Institute
murp@bc.edu

Mary C. Murphy joined Boston College in Fall 2024. She is a Full Professor in the Political Science Faculty and Director of the Irish Institute at Boston College. Her latest book, co-authored with Jonathan Evershed, A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit, Agenda/Columbia University Press 2022, won the UACES Best Book Prize in 2023. Mary is also the author of two other monographs on Northern Ireland and the EU, and has guest edited special issues of Irish Political Studies, Administration and Irish Studies in International Affairs (forthcoming). Her work has been published in leading academic journals including The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, International Political Science Review and Territory, Politics, Governance. 

Before joining Boston College, Professor Murphy was Head of the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the former President of the Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies and has twice been awarded an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair award. She was previously a Fulbright-Schuman scholar and has won the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Teaching and Learning Prize. Professor Murphy is a member of Ireland’s All-Island Women’s Forum and has held fellowships with the University of Edinburgh, University of Surrey and Canterbury Christ Church University.