Timothy Gilfoyle
American historian from New York From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Timothy J. Gilfoyle is an American historian from New York who is a professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American urban and social history.[1]
Timothy Gilfoyle | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (BA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Sub-discipline | Urban history |
| Institutions | Loyola University Chicago |
He gained a B.A. in 1979,[2] followed by a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 1987.[3] He is the former president of the Urban History Association (2015–16).
His academic research is mainly concerned with the evolution of 19th-century underworld subcultures and informal economies.[4]
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Gilfoyle is a Guggenheim Fellow (1998–99) and a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (1997).[5]
He is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians (2011) and the American Antiquarian Society (2007).
The following are some of Gilfoyle's books:[6][4]
- City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (1992)
- A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York (2006)
- Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (2006)
- The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (co-authored, 2008)
- The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York (2013)
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