Stephanie McCurry, Professor from the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania will be lecturing in the College of Liberal Arts room 4110 on February 21, 2013 from 4:00 – 6:30pm
Stephanie McCurry is a specialist in Nineteenth Century American history, with a focus on the American South and the Civil War era, and the history of women and gender.
Stephanie McCurry was born in Belfast , Northern Ireland , attended college in Canada , at the University of Western Ontario , and moved to the United States for graduate school. Stephanie McCurry is the author of Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (Oxford University Press, 1995) which received numerous awards including the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association. She is also the author of articles and review essays that have appeared in the Journal of American History, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and The Women’s Review of Books, as well as in anthologies, including Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1992), and, most recently, an essay “War, Gender and Emancipation in the Civil War South,” published in William Blair and Karen Younger, eds., Lincoln’s Proclamation: Race, Place and the Paradoxes of Emancipation (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) .
Stephanie McCurry’s new book, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South has just been published by Harvard University Press (April 2010). Sponsored by the Herbert Andrews Lecture on New Directions in History and the Department of History
