Murray Phillips (BA Hons, Queensland; PhD, Queensland) is Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Murray’s initial research was in the social history of sport where he built a reputation for his scholarship on sport and war, sport and gender, and the social histories of golf, rugby league and rugby union. In mid-career, Murray turned his attention to historiography as a specific genre within sport history. Working in this genre, Murray has produced several award winning books. These include:

  • Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis,
  • Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame,
  • Examining Sport Histories: Power, Paradigms, and Reflexivity, and
  • Sports History in the Digital Age.

Murray has received an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant to investigate the history of the Paralympic Movement in Australia. As well as evidence of peer esteem, the ARC grant articulates Murray’s historiographical acumen. His research project for the grant explores communications technologies and the ways these technologies link scholars, sport practitioners, and professional online editors to document the evolving past.

Murray is the Editor of the Journal of Sport History, the official organ of the North American Society for Sport History. He served as President of the Australian Society for Sports History between 2013 and 2015.