Lisa McGirr specializes in the history of the United States in the 20th century. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus, in particular, on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics. She is the author of The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (W.W. Norton, 2016) which excavates the significant but neglected state-building legacies of national Prohibition. Her award winning first book, Suburban Warriors: The 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. She is also co-author with Eric Foner and Kathleen DuVal of the textbook, Give Me Liberty: An American History. Currently, she is working on a book on rightwing politics and social movements in the 20th century United States.
