Stephanie McCurry

Stephanie McCurry is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University.  She is the author of three books including Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), and Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War.  Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Nation, the TLS, The New York Times among others. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and another at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has two children, and lives in New York City.

McCurry is currently working on a new history of the post-Civil War and post-emancipation United States (1865-1918) that explores the implications of reconstruction for private as well as public life.  Her approach will combine elements of microhistory focused on  individual human experience with the attentiveness to structural change required for a sweeping history of the era.