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John G. McCurdy
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Ph.D., Washington University
M.A., Washington University
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Knox College
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702-L Pray-Harrold |
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(734) 487-1018
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jmccurdy@emich.edu
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| Biography:
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Professor McCurdy specializes in the history of early America and regularly offers courses on the colonial era and the American Revolution. He also teaches issues of gender and sexuality in classes such as “History of Sexuality in America” and “Sexual Communities in American History.” He explores issues of U.S. Diversity in his course “Making American Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Historical Perspective.”
Dr. McCurdy’s research explores issues of masculinity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. His monograph Citizen Bachelors (Cornell University Press, 2009) explores issues of bachelorhood in the colonial era, specifically how changing ideas about marital status influenced the creation of American citizenship. Currently, Dr. McCurdy is researching manhood at the beginning of American history, specifically how ideas about gender affected the early explorers and conquistadors.
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Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009).
“‘These Unmanly, Slothfull, and Loathsome Immodesties’: The Struggle for Manhood in Early Jamestown,” in Manliness in Early America, ed. Thomas A. Foster (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming).
“The Origins of Universal Suffrage: The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776,” Pennsylvania Legacies 8, 2 (November 2008): 6-13.
“‘Your Affectionate Brother’: Complementary Manhoods in the Letters of John and Timothy Pickering,” Early American Studies 4 (2006): 512-45.
“Taxation and Representation: Pennsylvania Bachelors and the American Revolution,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129 (2005): 283-315.
Review of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, by Thomas A. Foster, William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 65 (2008): 200-2.
Review of Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review, by Scott Slawinski, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 130 (2006): 425-26.
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