Alexandra Murphy
Assistant Research Scientist, Poverty Solutions and Faculty Assoicate, Populations Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Murphy’s research uses ethnographic methods to examine how poverty and inequality are experienced, structured, and reproduced across and within multiple domains of social life including neighborhoods, social networks, organizations, and the state. Current research projects examine the new suburban poverty as well as the causes and consequences of transportation insecurity.
- Alexandra Murphy, Natasha Pilkauskas, Kovski, Nicole, Alix Gould-Werth. 2025. How Does Transportation Insecurity Compare and Relate to Other Indicators of Material Hardship in the U.S.?. Social Indicators Research
- Alexandra Murphy, Jamie Griffin, Alix Gould-Werth. 2025. Development and validation of a 3-item Transportation Security Index for social risk screening assessments and research into the many pathways through which transportation impacts health. AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology 1(3):uuaf020.
- Alexandra Murphy, Alix Gould-Werth, Jamie Griffin. 2024. Using a split-ballot design to validate an abbreviated categorical measurement scale: An illustration using the Transportation Security Index. Survey Practice 17
- Murphy, Alexandra Kampstad, Jerolmack, Colin . 2019. The Ethical Dilemmas and Social Scientific Trade-offs of Masking in Ethnography. Sociological Methods & Research :0049124117701483.
- Alexandra Murphy, Gould-Werth, Alix M., Griffin, Jamie. 2018. Developing a New Measure of Transportation Insecurity: An Exploratory Factor Analysis. Survey Practice 11(2):..
- Murphy, Alexandra Kampstad, Duneier, Mitchell , Kasinitz, Philip . 2014. The Urban Ethnography Reader.
- Murphy, Alexandra Kampstad. 2012. "Litterers": How Objects of Physical Disorder Are Used to Construct Subjects of Social Disorder in a Suburb. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642(1):210-227.
- Murphy, Alexandra Kampstad. 2010. The Symbolic Dilemmas of Suburban Poverty: Challenges and Opportunities Posed by Variations in the Contours of Suburban Poverty. Sociological Forum 25(3):541-569.
- Murphy, Alexandra Kampstad, Wallace, Danielle . 2010. Opportunities for Making Ends Meet and Upward Mobility: Differences in Organizational Deprivation Across Urban and Suburban Poor Neighborhoods. Social Science Quarterly 91(5):1164-1186.
- Murphy, Alexandra Kampstad, Newman, Katherine . 2009. Children and Work. The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion