Prof. Caroline Murphy

Caroline Murphy earned her B.A. from the University of Toronto in 2014 and her S.M.Arch.S. from MIT in 2016. She won a prize for her master's thesis that examined material and religious antiquarianism in the monastic history publications of the 17th-century English antiquary and herald, William Dugdale. During Murphy's time in the master's program, she wrote for the Department of Architecture's student website, Arch_Kiosk, and collaborated with a team directed by Rafi Segal on the exhibition, Space Packing Architecture: The Life and Work of Alfred Neumann (2015) and edited the catalog. Murphy began her Ph.D. in 2016, and before commencing her dissertation research in Italy, she co-led my program's lecture series (HTC Forum) alongside Elizabeth Browne and Sarah Rifky; co-organized the New England Society of Architectural Historians' 2018 Student Symposium with Eliyahu Keller; served on the Creative Arts Council, an MIT Institute Committee; and completed a teaching certification from MIT's Teaching and Learning Lab.

At MIT, Murphy's research was supported by a Walter A. Rosenblith Presidential Fellowship. Before joining the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, she won a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2017, and Murphy has also received grants and research awards from MIT's Department of Architecture, Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), and Graduate Student Council.