Washington University Ph.D., 2004; M.A., 2000 University of Chicago M.A., 1996 Knox College (Galesburg. Ill.) B.A., 1995

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1 John Gilbert McCurdy, Ph.D. Eastern Michigan University, Department of History and Philosophy 701 Pray-Harrold, Ypsilanti, Michigan (734) EDUCATION Washington University Ph.D., 2004; M.A., 2000 University of Chicago M.A., 1996 Knox College (Galesburg. Ill.) B.A., 1995 EMPLOYMENT Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, Mich.) Associate Professor of History 2010-present Assistant Professor of History Subjects Taught: Colonial America, American Revolution, History of Sexuality, LGBT History, Manhood, Atlantic World, US to 1877, US since 1865, Diversity in US History, Historiography University Service: Chair, History Section ( ); History Graduate Committee ( ); History Personnel and Finance Committee ( ); Chair, Latin American History Search Committee (2008-9); Affiliate, Department of Women s and Gender Studies Moravian College (Bethlehem, Pa.) Visiting Assistant Professor of History St. Louis Community College (St. Louis, Mo.) Instructor 2004 Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) Instructor Teaching Assistant University of Missouri St. Louis (St. Louis, Mo.) Instructor 2001 PUBLICATIONS Book Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009).

2 McCurdy 2 Refereed Articles and Chapters Gentlemen and Soldiers: Competing Visions of Manhood in Early Jamestown, in New Men: Manliness in Early America, ed. Thomas A. Foster, 9-30 (New York: New York University Press, 2011). Your Affectionate Brother : Complementary Manhoods in the Letters of John and Timothy Pickering, Early American Studies 4, 2 (Fall 2006): Taxation and Representation: Pennsylvania Bachelors and the American Revolution, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129, 3 (July 2005): Book Reviews The Philadelphia Associations, , by Joseph Seymour, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (in preparation). The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton, by Michael P. Federici, H-Law (forthcoming). Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England, by R. Todd Romero, American Historical Review (forthcoming). Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, , by Joshua R. Greenberg, Journal of American History 97, 2 (September 2010): The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic, by Richard Godbeer, New England Quarterly 82, 4 (December 2009): 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, 1 (January 2008): 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, 4 (October 2006): Scholarship of Teaching Using Benjamin Franklin s Autobiography to Teach Diversity in Teaching Franklin s Autobiography, ed. George Boudreau (in preparation). The Origins of Universal Suffrage: The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, Pennsylvania Legacies 8, 2 (November 2008): Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries Spinsters, Masculinity, and Bachelorhood, in Dictionary of American History: Dynamic Reference Edition, ed. Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale for Charles Scribner s Sons Reference Books, forthcoming). Bacon s Rebellion, Harvard College, Indentured Servitude, Jamestown-Virginia Company, King Philip s War, Maryland, New Netherland, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Penn, and Witchcraft in New England in The Encyclopedia of World History, ed. Marsha Ackermann, et al., 7 vols. (New York: Facts on File, 2007). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

3 McCurdy 3 Original Research For the Better Payment of the Army and Their Quarters : Rethinking the Quartering Acts, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Eighteenth Annual Conference, San Marino, Calif. (16 June 2012). Imagining Women in Anglo-America: Depictions of Gender in Hakluyt s Principal Navigations, Society of Early Americanists, Early American Borderlands Conference, St. Augustine, Fla. (14 May 2010). The Mysterious Mrs. Colline: Rethinking Gender, Cannibalism, and the Starving Time of , Michigan Early Americanists, Third Annual Colloquium, East Lansing, Mich. (28 May 2009). One Amongst the Rest Did Kill His Wife, Powdered Her, and Had Eaten Part of Her Before It Was Known : The Discourse of Gender in Early Virginia, Society of Early Americanists, Sixth Biennial Conference, Hamilton, Bermuda (7 March 2009). All Strangers to Each Other s Education, Qualities, or Dispositions : The Struggle for Manhood in Early Jamestown, American Men s Studies Association, Sixteenth Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities, Winston-Salem, N.C. (5 April 2008). Seduction from a Man s Perspective: The Diaries of Two Virginia Bachelors from the 1790s, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Society of Early Americanists, Joint Annual Conference, Williamsburg, Va. (8 June 2007). Every Batchelor Should Pay Such a Tax to the Queen : Legal Pressures to Marry in Transatlantic Discourse, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Ga. (24 March 2007). Poor Hamilton is Gone! Not Dead, But Married : Male Bonding, Marital Status, and Men s Clubs in the Eighteenth Century, American Men s Studies Association, Fourteenth Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities, Ypsilanti, Mich. (8 April 2006). Your Affectionate Brother : Complementary Manhoods in the Letters of John and Timothy Pickering, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Eleventh Annual Conference, Santa Barbara, Calif. (26 June 2005). Taxation and Representation: Pennsylvania Bachelors and the American Revolution, Pennsylvania Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Harrisburg, Pa. (24 October 2003). Bachelor Revolutions: Single Soldiers, Taxation with Representation, and Citizen Bachelors, Dissertation Workshop, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. (September 2003). We Are All Single; A Strange Family Perhaps You ll Say : Bachelor Lawmakers in Early America, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Gendered Passages in Historical Perspective: Single Women Seminar, New Brunswick, N.J. (16 September 2003). Single Freeman in Colonial Pennsylvania: Some Observations on Gender and Politics in Early America, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Bi-Weekly Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. (November 2001) and Library Company of Philadelphia, Fellows Presentation, Philadelphia, Pa. (October 2001). The Maryland Bachelor Tax: Gender and Politics in the Seven Years War, East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Washington College, Washington,

4 McCurdy 4 Pa. (October 1999) and Washington University, Graduate History Colloquium, St. Louis, Mo. (March 2000). Family, Community, and Revivalism: The Evolution of Religious Voluntarism in Windham County, Connecticut, , Graduate Student Symposium, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. (May 1996). Comment and Panelist Commentator, Singlehood in the Eighteenth Century: Economies and Interpretations, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Forty-fourth Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Oh. (4-7 April 2013). Commentator, Identity Shift: Gender and Nationality Identities in Cold War America, International Graduate Historical Studies Conference, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich. (14 April 2012). Panelist, Roundtable: What s New, What s Next in Masculinity Studies in the Early Republic? Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Thirty-second Annual Meeting, Rochester, N.Y. (23 July 2010). Commentator, Gender: Ideals and Reality in the Early American Republic, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Annual Conference, Huntsville, Ala. (29 February 2008). AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Scholarship Eisenberg Institute Residency Research Grant, University of Michigan ( ) Faculty Scholarship Award (Fewer than Five Years of Service), Eastern Michigan University (2010) Faculty Research Fellowship, Eastern Michigan University (2008) ASECS-AAS Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society (2006) Mellon Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society (2006) Graduate School Research Support Fund Award, Eastern Michigan University (2006) Research Associate, McNeil Center for Early American Studies (2002-3) Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University (2002-3) Research Fellowship, David Library of the American Revolution (2001) Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia (2001) Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society (2001) Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University (2001) Gubser-Blakely Award, Washington University (2000) Sven Eric Molin Prize, East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1999)

5 McCurdy 5 University Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, Washington University ( ) Tuition Scholarship, University of Chicago ( ) Instruction Building an Atlantic Studies Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences Dean s Program Development Initiative, Eastern Michigan University ( ) Nominee, Outstanding Faculty in Classroom Instruction, Holman Learning Center, Eastern Michigan University (2009) Nominee, Outstanding Faculty in a Supporting Role, Holman Learning Center, Eastern Michigan University (2008) Kemper Teaching Fellowship, Washington University (2000) POPULAR ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS We the Bachelors, The New York Times (4 July 2009), A19. Marbury v. Madison (1803), The Lynn Rivers Show, WEMU 89.1 (6 February 2012). Ben Franklin s America, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World Exhibit, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. (7 July 2011). Co-Presenter, Getting Started: Bringing the World into the Class, Democracy in Our Wiki-World Symposium, Eastern Michigan University (8 February 2008). SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Manuscript Referee for New York University Press Article Referee for Journal of American History, Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, and Men & Masculinities Tenure Evaluator for the University of Michigan and Indiana University MEMBERSHIPS Organization of American Historians Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture McNeil Center for Early American Studies REFERENCES Professor David T. Konig

6 McCurdy 6 Department of History, Washington University One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Mo Office Phone: (314) dtkonig@artsci.wustl.edu Professor Steven J. Ramold Department of History and Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University 701 Pray-Harrold, Ypsilanti, Mich Office Phone: (734) sramold@emich.edu Professor George W. Boudreau Department of American Studies and History, Penn State Capital College 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, Pa Office Phone: (717) gwbphd@hotmail.com