Stephen O. Murray papers.

The Stephen O. Murray papers consist of approximately 36 linear feet of material dating from 1950 to 2019. The collection consists of personal and professional material, including correspondence, scrapbooks, published and unpublished manuscripts, drafts of published reviews and articles, research materials, materials by other authors, personal photographs, and ephemera. Correspondence files may include drafts, notes, clippings, research materials, and photographs. Files with unpublished writings and manuscripts may include several drafts, notes, research materials, correspondence, and comments from editors and reviewers. Files with writings by other authors may include working manuscripts with annotations by Stephen O. Murray, and personal notes from the author. Subject files may contain photocopies of articles, annotations, notes, drafts papers, and clippings. Recordings of interviews and born-digital material will be available in our reading room.

Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Stephen O. Murray papers, MSS 795, Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, MSU Libraries, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

This collection was donated by Keelung Hong in 2020.

Dr. Murray's extensive personal library was donated separately from his personal papers. Materials inscribed and annotated will be available by request through the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, the remaining will be available through the Main Library collection.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1950, Stephen O. Murray graduated from the James Madison College at the Michigan State University in 1972, with a double major in Social Psychology and Justice, Morality, and Constitutional Democracy. He will go on to earn a M.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Arizona (1975), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto (1980). He also completed a post-doctoral training in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Murray's research interests ran wide and included linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and comparative studies in a variety of topics, such as sexual and gender diversity. Dr. Murray was a founding member of the Sociologists' Gay Caucus (now Sociologists' LGBTQ Caucus) at the American Sociological Association in 1974. He was also involved in the formation of the Anthropological Research Group on Homosexuality of the American Anthropological Association (renamed Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists; and later Association for Queer Anthropology). Dr. Murray died on August 27, 2019 from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. To honor his memory, his spouse, Dr. Keelung Hong, donated his personal papers to MSU Libraries in 2020.