Amanda Murdie


Amanda Murdie is an American political scientist who is the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and is a Regents' Professor. Murdie was previously a Regents' Professor & Georgia Athletic Association Professor of International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
Murdie specializes in the behavior of international nongovernmental organizations and their interactions with states, local populations, and intergovernmental organizations. Murdie has published over 80 articles and books in numerous academic journals including the American Political Science Review.

Education

Murdie earned a B.S. and M.A. in political science from Kansas State University. Subsequently, she obtained a Ph.D. in political science from Emory University.

Career

In June of 2025, Murdie succeeded Richard Utz as the dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
After assistant professorships at Kansas State University and the University of Missouri, Murdie took up the post of associate professor at the University Missouri. Subsequently, she became a full professor at the University of Georgia.
Murdie serves on the editorial boards of the International Relations journals Foreign Policy Analysis and International Studies Perspectives.
In September 2014, she published a book Help of Harm: The Human Security Effects of International NGOs, that examines how international NGOs effectively improve human security.

Research

Murdie is an expert in the role of INGOs in international affairs, human security, human rights, conflict processes, and development. Her first book, Help or harm: The human security effects of international NGOs, was published in 2014 by Stanford University Press.

Awards