Catherine McNicol Stock
Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History
Joined Connecticut College: 1990
Education
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Social, cultural and political history of the United States, 1877 to present, including the American West
Rural America
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Catherine Stock is the author of Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain. She is also the author of Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains, plus the introduction to Dakota Territory, 1861-1889: A Study of Frontier Politics, by Howard Roberts Lamar.
She served as the College Marshal in 2015. The college marshal is responsible for planning and directing the faculty and student proceedings at College ceremonies and leads the processional during Commencement.
She is the recipient of the College's 2009 John S. King Memorial Teaching Award, established to recognize teacher-scholars with high standards of teaching excellence and concern for students.
She has written numerous sections for The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West and has written book reviews for Journal of American History and American Historical Review.
Stock is a member of the American Historical Association, American Studies Association, New England American Studies Association, Organization of American Historians, and the Western History Association.
View the history department website and the American Studies program website.
Contact Catherine McNicol Stock
Mailing Address
Catherine McNicol Stock
Connecticut College
Box # HISTORY/Winthrop Hall
270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320
Office
201 Winthrop Hall