Background
McCoy, Alfred William Son of Alfred Mudge and Margarita Piel McCoy.
McCoy, Alfred William Son of Alfred Mudge and Margarita Piel McCoy.
Bachelor, Columbia University, New York City, 1968. Master of Arts, University California Berkeley, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, 1977.
Research fellow Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1977—1978. Associate professor University New South Wales, Sydney, 1978—1989. Professor history UW-Madison, Wisconsin, since 1989.
Author: (history public policy) Politics of Heroin (New York Times, Important Book of the Year, 1973), Drug Traffic: Narcotics & Organized Crime in Australia (National Best Seller, 1982), Anarchy of Families: State & Family in the Philippines (Philippine National Book Award, 1994), Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy, A Question of Torture: Central Intelligence Agency Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State.
Vestry Grace Episcopal Church, Madison, since 2009.
Married Mary Elizabeth Pixley, August 24, 1997. Children: Margarita Kathryn, Cyrus Edward. Married Glenita Martirez Formoso, 1974 (divorced 1982).