Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, teacher, activist, and public servant. He holds a joint faculty appointment in Harvard’s undergraduate honors program in History and Literature, the Graduate School of Education, Harvard Business School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he is Core Faculty and Director of Culture Change & Social Justice Initiatives and the Emerging Human Rights Leaders Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Dr. McCarthy is also the Stanley Paterson Professor of American History in the Boston Clemente Course, a college-level humanities course in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and co-recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. A historian of politics and social movements, he is author or editor of five books from the New Press, including Stonewall’s Children: Living Queer History in the Age of Liberation, Loss, and Love, forthcoming in 2018. Dr. McCarthy graduated with honors from Harvard College and Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. in History.

Selected Publications

Books

• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick Patrick. The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the People’s Historian. The New Press, 2012.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism. The New Press, 2010.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism. The New Press, 2006.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. The Radical Reader: A Documentary Anthology of the American Radical Tradition. The New Press, 2003.

Commentary

• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "More Than Blood." Nursing Clio, June 14, 2016.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Extinguishing the Fires This Time." Huffington Post, July 2015.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Coming of AIDS." Pangyrus, January 28, 2015.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "The Fire This Time." NewBlackMan (in Exile), November 27, 2014.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Let the Controversy Commence!" Huffington Post, May 2014.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Howard Zinn at 90: Defending the People’s Historian." The Daily Beast, August 27, 2012.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Gay Republicans Rising." Daily Beast, August 29, 2010.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Barack Obama: America’s First Gay President?" Huffington Post, October 2009.

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "When the Past is Present: What Slave Narratives Teach Us about Our Greatest Human Desire." Salon. January 18, 2016.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Fomenting a Rebellion: Teaching American History in the Clemente Course." Common-place. Fall 2014.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "War Is (Still) Hell." Nation. September 2012.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Let Us Be the Peacemakers." Nation. September 2010.
• McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "America’s Radical Roots." Nation. May 2010.