Dr. Leah A. Murray

Assistant Professor

Political Science and Philosophy

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.

-- Robert Hutchins

Department of Political Science and Philosophy

Weber State University

1203 University Circle

Ogden, UT 84408-1203

Phone:  801 626 6695

Fax:  801 626 7994

Email:  lmurray@weber.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Summer 2009 Courses

Course List

This Week In Politics

President Obama’s aides say he is seeking a tougher U.S. response than after North Korea’s 2006 nuclear test, but much will depend on Russia and China.

 

A day after a stretch of Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets was closed to cars, the soul of Times Square remained intact.

 

By some measures, the New York City principals who have come through the city’s celebrated Leadership Academy lag behind veterans who did not.

 

Since 2004, military personnel killed in Afghanistan or Iraq have been given CT scans, and since 2001, they have had autopsies. This was rare in previous wars.

 

Ruth Padel resigned after she acknowledged helping publicize charges that her rival for Oxford University’s chair in poetry had sexually harassed a former student.

Political Science Announcements

Internships

If interested in Washington D.C. internships, please contact Dr. Leah Murray at the email listed above.

 

Departmental Honors

If interested in Department Honors in Political Science, please contact Dr. Thom Kuehls at 626 6696.