{"id":49492,"date":"2023-11-27T16:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=49492&preview=true&preview_id=49492"},"modified":"2023-11-27T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T21:43:08","slug":"professor-ryan-murphy-featured-guest-on-nprs-history-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/professor-ryan-murphy-featured-guest-on-nprs-history-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Ryan Murphy featured guest on NPR’s history podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Earlham College professor Ryan Murphy<\/a> joined National Public Radio’s “Throughline” podcast as a featured guest to talk about the resurgence in public support for the labor movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n An associate professor of history<\/a> and women\u2019s, gender, and sexuality studies,<\/a> Murphy is the author of Deregulating Desire, Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice<\/em>. The book received the 2017 David Montgomery award for best book in labor history from the Organization of American Historians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Murphy is currently at work on a new project, Teamsters Metropolis,<\/em> which explores union activists\u2019 fraught relationship to kinship, family, and desire in the neighborhoods of 1950s U.S. cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n