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Stephen O. Murray (May 4, 1950 – August 27, 2019) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, and independent scholar based in San Francisco, California. He was known for extensive scholarly work on the sociology, anthropology, and comparative history of sexual and gender minorities, on sociolinguistics, history of the social sciences, and as an important editor and organizer of scholarly work in these areas.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Selected publications
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life and education

Stephen Murray grew up in rural Minnesota. A member of the second cl* at James Madison College within Michigan State University, Stephen Murray had an undergraduate double major in social psychology and in Justice, Morality, and Cons*utional Democracy. He earned his M.A. degree from the University of Arizona in sociology in 1975, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, also in sociology in 1979, and then undertook post-doctoral training in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (1980-1982).

Career

His work included studies in sociolinguistics, history of social sciences (anthropology, sociology, linguistics), and extensive publications on the historical and cross-cultural social organizations of *sexuality. His main areas of fieldwork were in North America United States Mexico, Canada, and Taiwan (with his partner Keelung Hong). He also co-edited books on *sexualities in sub-Saharan Africa and across the Islamic world with Will Roscoe.

With Regna Darnell, he co-edited the monographic series "Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology" for the University of Nebraska Press. He worked for more than a decade in public health with California county health departments and also wrote on public health issues, particularly in regard to HIV/AIDS.

He held positions on the editorial boards of several social science journals including the Journal of *sexuality and the Histories of Anthropology Annual, and was a contributor to the online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture, GLBTQ and other reference volumes. He was a regular contributor at epinions.com and *ociatedcontent.com.

Stephen Murray died in San Francisco, California on August 27, 2019 of complications of a B-cell lymphoma.

Selected publications

• Murray, Stephen O (1995), Latin American Male *sexualities, University of New Mexico Press, ISBN:978-0-8263-1658-5
• Murray, Stephen O (1996), American gay, University of Chicago Press, ISBN:978-0-226-55193-7
• Murray, Stephen O (1996), Angkor Life, Bua Luang Books, ISBN:978-0-942777154
• Murray, Stephen O; Roscoe, Will (1997), Islamic *sexualities: Culture, history, and literature, New York University Press, ISBN:978-0-8147-7468-7
• Murray, Stephen O; Roscoe, Will (1998), Boy-wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African *sexualities, St. Martin's Press, ISBN:978-0-312-23829-2
• Murray, Stephen O (1998), American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and theory groups, Amsterdam, ISBN:978-1-55619-532-7 (Rev. ed. of Theory groups and the study of language in North America: a social history (1994).
• Murray, Stephen O (2000), *sexualities, University of Chicago Press, ISBN:978-0-226-55194-4
• Murray, Stephen O (2002), Pacific *sexualities, Writers Club Press / iUniverse, ISBN:0-595-22785-6
• Hong, Keelung; Murray, Stephen O (2005), Looking through Taiwan: American anthropologists' collusion with ethnic domination, University of Nebraska press, ISBN:978-0-8032-2435-3
• Murray, Stephen O (2012), Pieces for a History of Gay Studies, Obregón, ASIN:B007Q3E6EK
• Murray, Stephen O (2012), Reading Sicily (in English), Obregón, ASIN:B0083LLH1O
• Murray, Stephen O (2012), Collected Stories, Obregón., ASIN:B008HLQT3G
• Murray, Stephen O (2012), Reading 20th-Century Italian Fiction, Obregón, ASIN:B00ABN6UUA
• Murray, Stephen O (2012), 21st-Century Representation of Muslim *sexualities, Obregón, ASIN:B008HKFYG0
• Murray, Stephen O (2013), An Introduction to African Cinema, Obregón, ASIN:B00AZMXAE6
• Murray, Stephen O (2013), American Anthropology and Company: Historical Explorations, University of Nebraska Press., ISBN:978-0803243958

References

External links

• Stephen Murray at glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture.