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Carly Mychl Murray

Doctoral Student
murraycm@uchicago.edu
Address

969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Areas of Expertise
Anthropology of social work
Anti-Oppression Education and Activism
Child Welfare System
Criminal Legal Policy
Decarceration
Gender, Race, and Class
Harm Reduction
Intersectionality
Policy Implementation
Poverty and Income
Race, Gender and Class
Social Welfare Policy
Transformative Justice
Violence and Trauma
Welfare
Women with incarceration experiences

Murray, C.M., Martinez, S., Cinque, A., Sohn, Y., & Newton, G. (2024). “We owe it to those who shall come after us”: Considering the role of social work education in disrupting carceral complicity. Social Sciences, 13(9), 491. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090491

Fedock, G. & Murray, C.M. (2024). Material needs, epistemic neglect, and slow violence: A systematic review of research on women affected by the criminal legal system. Social Service Review, 98(1).

Murray, C. (2022). Improving domestic violence responses in Rhode Island. The Council of State Governments Justice Center. https://csgjusticecenter.org/publications/improving-domestic-violence-responses-in-rhodeisland/

Murray, C. (2022). Improving domestic violence responses in Vermont. The Council of State Governments Justice Center. https://csgjusticecenter.org/publications/improving-domestic-violence-responses-in-vermont-2/

Dworsky, A., Fedock, G., Schlecht, C., Malcome, M., Murray, C., & Hazel, C. (2020). Addressing the needs of incarcerated mothers and their children in Illinois. Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration.

Office of the Lieutenant Governor. (2020). Task force on children of incarcerated parents: Final report and recommendations. Chicago, IL: State of Illinois.

Murray, C., Gunseor, M., Darling, S., Priebe, M., & Bleske-Rechek, A. (2016, May; 2016, April). Conflations of correlation with causation in researchers’ descriptions of their work. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science 28th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL; Oral presentation at the Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Honor’s Symposium, Eau Claire, WI.

Carly Mychl Murray (she/her/hers) is a doctoral student at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, where she is focused on women’s and families’ experiences and needs related to trauma, violence, criminalization, and access to social services. In her work, Carly seeks to critically examine historical and contemporary practices of the social work profession to inform new futures of extending care. She has worked providing direct services to survivors of intimate partner and state violence and collaborating with local and state governments on assessing and improving responses to intimate partner violence. Carly earned an A.M. from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.