Biography and education
Angela F. Murphy is a Professor of History at Texas state University. She received her PhD in US History from the University of Houston in 2006.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Murphy, Angela F. Research Enhancement Grant, Texas State University. (Funded: 2012). Grant.
- Murphy, Angela F. Research Enhancement Grant, Texas State University. (Funded: 2007). Grant.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- Murphy, A. F. (2025). Jermain Wesley Loguen: Defiant Fugitive. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.34829409
- Murphy, A. F. (2024). Race, Labor, and Slavery in Antebellum Irish America. In The Routledge History of Irish America (pp. 71–82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003278153-7
- Murphy, A. F. (2021). Black Abolitionists in Ireland and the Challenge of Universal Reform. In R. A. Johnson & O. Power-Greene (Eds.), In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
- Murphy, A. F. (2016). The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis. Oxford University Press.
- Murphy, A. F. (2016). 'This Foul Slavery-Reviving System’: Irish Opposition to the Jamaica Emigration Scheme, 1840-1842,”Ireland, Slavery, Antislavery, Empire". Slavery & Abolition, 37(3), 578–598.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: 2021 Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Service, Texas State University. 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Administrator of the Year, Center for International Studies. September 2019 - August 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Texas State University Dean’s Excellence in Research and Scholarly/Creative Activity Award, Texas State University. 2011
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. 2008
- Award / Honor Recipient: Panhellenic Distinguished Professor. 2008

Featured service activities
- Editorial Review Board Member
American Nineteenth Century History
- Chair
History Department Chair
- Attendee / Participant
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Learning Outcomes Workgroup: African American History
- University Mentor
Faculty Mentor Alana Bunstock de Hinojosa
- Member
Faculty Development Fund Committee
- Other
Assessment Coordinator
