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the basics

- associate professor at UC Irvine
- PhD from UCLA, 2008
- linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist
- design, graphic language, architecture, embodiment, phenomenology

- Sweden and the U.S.

the work

- making, using, and caring for letterforms
- design, form, and social democratic politics in Sweden
- gesture and embodiment in design interactions
- language and cognition in human experience

some extras

- UCI School of Social Sciences Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2016 
UCI Professor of the Year, 2016


contact

- email: kmmurphy@uci.edu
- office: 3306 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
- office phone: (949) 824-9234
- fax: (949) 824-0646
- mail: Dept of Anthropology, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-5100





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