John Gilbert McCurdy

John Gilbert McCurdy is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh (Johns Hopkins, 2024). He is also the author of Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution (Cornell, 2019), which was named Book of the Year by the Journal of the American Revolution, and Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States (Cornell, 2009). His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Cambridge History of World Violence, and the Journal of Urban History. McCurdy received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004, and he also holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Knox College. He has received numerous fellowships including ones from the British Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the American Philosophical Society. McCurdy has taught at Eastern Michigan University since 2005. He has been nominated for several teaching awards and he received the Faculty Scholarship Award in 2010. He regularly teaches courses in colonial and Revolutionary America, as well as the gender and sexuality.