Teri McMurtry-Chubb

Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, professor of law. (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC)

Teri McMurtry-Chubb is a legal scholar and historian whose research, writing and teaching cover the areas of critical rhetoric, discourse and genre analysis, critical race feminism and legal history.

She has lectured nationally on structural discrimination in educational institutions and the workplace and is a leader in designing curricula to facilitate diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. McMurtry-Chubb is also an expert in employment law, employment discrimination and civil rights. She has served as an expert witness and frequent commentator on high-profile employment discrimination lawsuits.  

Backed by a three-year, $500,000 grant within the Mellon Higher Learning program’s U.S. Racialization and the Law portfolio, McMurtry-Chubb is the lead principal investigator for Humanizing Critical Race Theory. The project integrates humanities-based critical race and gender analysis into undergraduate curricula, faculty scholarship and collaborative university-community projects at UIC. 

Languages spoken
English, French (conversational), Japanese (conversational) 

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