Dr. Lisa Mcgirr

Biography

Lisa McGirr specializes in the history of the 20th century United States, with research and teaching interests that bridge social and political history. Her focus includes collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics. McGirr has researched the American penal state, transnational social movements, and the intersection of religion and politics in the twentieth-century United States. Her recent book, 'The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State' (W.W. Norton, 2016), has won wide acclaim for excavating significant but neglected state-building legacies of national Prohibition. Another award winning book, 'Suburban Warriors: Origins of the New American Right,' investigates the social and regional basis of grass-roots conservative politics in the post-World War II United States. McGirr teaches a wide variety of courses on U.S. history in the 20th century.

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