| Charles W. McCurdy Professor of History and Law Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 1976 A.B., University ofCalifornia at San Diego, 1970 Professor McCurdy's scholarship explores the sources and effects of legal change in United States history. He is currently studying federalism and the transformation of American legal thought since the New Deal. McCurdy has won several awards for his scholarship including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 1985-86, the Arthur H. Cole Award from the Economic History Association in 1979, the Louis Pelzer Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1973, and was a Russell Sage Fellow in Law & Social Science at Yale Law School in 1973-74 and again in 1974-75. He currently serves as chair of the Corcoran Department of History. In 2003 he received the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his book, The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865. | |

