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Timothy Gilfoyle | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) |
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| Alma mater | Columbia University (BA, PhD) |
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| Sub-discipline | Urban history |
| Institutions | Loyola University Chicago |
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]
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]
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]
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