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Stephanie McCurry

ステファニー・マッカリー

Suteafanī Makkarī

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Belfast
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Belfast (Northern Ireland) → London, Ontario (Canada) → Rochester, New York → Binghamton, New York → San Diego, California → Evanston, Illinois → Philadelphia, Pennsylvania → New York City

Career

Occupations
historian, professor of history
Active Years
1997-2024
Affiliations
Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, University of California, San Diego
Influenced
Eric Foner

Education

University of Western Ontario
Department of History
Degree: BA
Country: Canada
University of Rochester
Department of History
Degree: MA
Country: United States
Binghamton University
Department of History
Degree: Ph.D.
Country: United States

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for History
2011
Work: Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Category: History
Organization: Pulitzer Prize Board
Result: finalist

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country

1997 History

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

2010 History

Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War

2019 History

Bibliography

  • Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
  • Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
  • Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War

Legacy

Known as a specialist in American Civil War history, particularly for being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History with 'Confederate Reckoning'. Professor at Columbia University.