Global Georgia Initiative/ Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture: Stephanie McCurry – “Reconstructing: A Georgia Woman’s Life Amidst the Ruins”

The Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture Series presents Stephanie McCurry, the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University.  Professor McCurry is the author of Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (Oxford U. Press, 1997) and Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard U Press, 2010). McCurry's first book won five prizes, including the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association and the Francis Butler Simkins Prize from the Southern Historical Association. Her second book won four prizes and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She's a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Society of American Historians, and a winner of the Richard Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching. 

The Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. Global Georgia combines the best in contemporary thinking and practice in the arts and humanities with related advances in the sciences and other areas. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.

The university community is invited!