Brian Murphy

Brian Phillips Murphy is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University–Newark, where he leads a project documenting New Jersey’s 1947 state constitutional convention in partnership with the Quill Project at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He is a faculty affiliate of the Rutgers University Center for State Constitutional Studies and the author of Building the Empire State: Political Economy in Early America, which shared the best first book prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He is the 2023–2024 Helen and Robert Appel Fellow in History and Technology at the New-York Historical Society. He is a graduate of Haverford College and earned a PhD in history from the University of Virginia. 

Brian Phillips Murphy is a 2024-25 Steven M. Polan Fellow in Constitutional Law and History. For more information about the Polan Fellowship, click here.