Dr Amber Murrey

Dr Amber Murrey is Associate Professor in Human Geography, Fellow and Tutor at Mansfield College, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Geography & the Environment (2025–2028) at the University of Oxford. A political geographer, ethnographer, and educator, she examines power, anti-imperial liberation, and resistance in contemporary African contexts, with a focus on authoritarianism, corporate power, and the political economies of extraction. She represents the Social Sciences Division on the Joint Student Mental Health Committee (from 2025).

Amber is the author of Knowledge making, sacrifice, reciprocity: two decades of research along an oil pipeline (forthcoming), Decolonizing Development Studies: Learning Disobedience (with Patricia Daley in 2023), and editor of 'A Certain Amount of Madness': The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (2018), the first English-language volume on the political thought and praxis of Thomas Sankara.

She is Chief Editor of African Geographical Review and serves on the advisory boards of Pambazuka Press, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Economy & Society, and Society and Space. From 2024–2025, she was a Fulbright Fellow in the Department of Geography at Université de Yaoundé I and the Department of Peace & Conflict Studies at the University of Buea, Cameroon.

Member of the Race and Resistance Research Hub Steering Committee