John G. McCurdy

Associate Professor and History Section Chair

Ph.D., Washington University
M.A., Washington University
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Knox College

701-S Pray-Harrold
(734) 487-0906
jmccurdy@emich.edu

Professor McCurdy specializes in the history of early America and regularly offers courses on the colonial era and the American Revolution. He also teaches courses on the history of sexuality as well as U.S. Diversity.

Dr. McCurdy’s research explores eighteenth-century America society from a variety of angles. His first monograph Citizen Bachelors considered the role that marital status played in the creation of American citizenship. Currently, Dr. McCurdy is researching the Quartering Acts of 1765-75 to understand how issues of martial space influenced the coming of the American Revolution.

Book

Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009).
URL: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100718350

Scholarly Articles

“Gentlemen and Soldiers: Competing Visions of Manhood in Early Jamestown,” in New Men: Manliness in Early America, ed. Thomas A. Foster (New York: New York University Press, 2011).
URL: http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=3863

“‘Your Affectionate Brother’: Complementary Manhoods in the Letters of John and Timothy Pickering,” Early American Studies 4 (2006): 512-45.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/Early_American_Studies_Vol._4_Iss._2_2006.html

Popular Presentations

“Marbury v. Madison (1803),” The Lynn Rivers Show, WEMU 89.1 (6 February 2012).
URL: http://wemu.org/post/lynn-rivers-show-8

“Ben Franklin’s America,” Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World Exhibit, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. (7 July 2011).
URL: http://www.aadl.org/video/view/10799

"We the Bachelors," The New York Times (4 July 2009), A19. 
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/opinion/04mccurdy.html?_r=1