Biography and expertise
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.
Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in History
University of Houston, 2006
Master's Degree
MA in History
Texas A&M University, 1991
Bachelor's Degree
BA in English
Texas A&M University, 1988
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. New Haven, CN, United States: 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
- Member
Faculty Development Fund Committee
- Other
Assessment Coordinator
- Other
General Education Committee
