Stephen O. Murray
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Stephen O. Murray, is a gay sociologist, anthropologist, and independent scholar based in San Francisco, California. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Toronto and completed post-doctoral training in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His work has included studies in sociolinguistics, but he is best known for his extensive publications on the anthropology and sociology of homosexuality. His main areas of fieldwork have been the United States and Mexico, though his writings survey a broad repsentation of cross-cultural research. He has also written on public health issues, particularly in regard to HIV/AIDS.
He has positions on the editorial boards of several social science journals including the Journal of Homosexuality, and is a contributor to the online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture, GLBTQ.
[edit] Selected Publications
- Murray, Stephen O. 1995. Latin American Male Homosexualities. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
- Murray, Stephen O. 1996. American Gay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Murray, Stephen O. 1998. American Sociolinguistics: theorists and theory groups. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.
- Murray, Stephen O. 2000. Homosexualities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Murray, Stephen O. and Will Roscoe, eds. 1997. Islamic Homosexualities: culture, history, and literature. New York: New York University Press.
- Murray, Stephen O. and Will Roscoe, eds. 1998. Boy-wives and Female Husbands: studies of African homosexualities. New York : St. Martin's Press.
