Michelle Murphy is a science and technology studies scholar whose research concerns feminist and decolonial approaches to environmental justice, reproduction, and data studies. Their current research focuses on the relationships between pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes. At the University of Toronto, Murphy is Professor of History and Women & Gender Studies, a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which hosts an Indigenous Environmental Data Justice lab. They are Métis from Winnipeg. Murphy is the author of three books: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty (2006), Seizing the Means of Reproduction (2012), and The Economization of Life (2017), all published by Duke University Press.