Laura T. Murphy (NHC Fellow, 2017–18)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2017–18

Laura T. Murphy completed the full draft of her book The New Slave Narrative, which is under contract with Columbia University Press. She published "Anti-Trafficking's Sensational Misinformation" in a special issue of the Journal of Human Trafficking (vol. 4, no. 1, 2018) on "Media and Human Trafficking: Negotiating Meaning, Representation, and Change," and with Kevin Bales and Bernard Silverman made progress on "How Many Trafficked/Enslaved People in New Orleans?: A Multiple Systems Estimation." She also completed a number of educational projects including: "Labor Trafficking among Homeless Youth" for the National Safeplace Network; an "E-learning Module on Labor Trafficking" for the U.S. Administration of Children and Families; a "Community Resource Toolkit, Blueprint for Community Action, and on Trafficking among Homeless Youth" for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center; and "Labor Trafficking Train-the-Trainer Curriculum" for the Greater New Orleans Human Trafficking Task Force.