James Brendan Murphy was born Oct. 12 1954 and is married with two children. He is currently a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences of St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, and Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 
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Ph. D, McGill University, P.Q., 1977-82
Thesis: "Tectonics and Magmatism in the northern Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia."

Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, StFX, 1994-present
Associate Professor, Geology, StFX, 1988-94
Assistant Professor, Geology, StFX, 1985-88
Lecturer, St. Francis Xavier U, 1982-85
Lecturer, McGill University, 1980-82

Advanced Field Methods³ (10)
Advanced Igneous Petrology ² (6)
Advanced Metamorphic Petrology² (6)

Advanced Structural Geology² (8)

Earth and Environmental Systems⁴  (4)

Earth History² (4)

Geophysics² (2)

Introductory Field Methods³ (18)
Introductory Petrology² (8)

Introductory Structural Geology² (23)

Mineralogy ² (2)
Optical Mineralogy² (6)

Regional Structural Geology & Tectonics² (12)
Understanding the Earth¹ (17)

¹ 72 lectures

²  36 lectures, 12 labs (practicals)  

³   10 day field course, co-taught

⁴  Weekly two-hour seminar course, co-taught

*  Figures in parentheses indicate number

    of times each course has been taught

Special topics in Structural Geology and Tectonics
Special topics in Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks
Special topics in Earth Systems Science II
Field research methods in the Earth Sciences