Shayna Murphy

Interests: Colonial America, History of Childhood and family, Women's history, Public History, Motherhood. 

Advisor: Donna Rilling

Email: shayna.murphy@stonybrook.edu  Office: N306

My research interests center around perceptions and experiences of childhood, family, and motherhood in America and better understanding the often unacknowledged labor within family life. I am interested in social history and have a background in public history and archaeology.