Timothy Gilfoyle Explained

Occupation:	Historian
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Columbia University (BA, PhD)
Workplaces:	Loyola University Chicago
Sub Discipline:	Urban history
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship (1998)

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]

Honors and awards

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).

Bibliography

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Timothy J. Gilfoyle . Press.uchicago.edu . 2017-01-22.
2. Web site: Columbia College Today. 2022-01-12. www.college.columbia.edu.
3. Web site: Macmillan Learning . Macmillan Learning . 2017-01-22.
4. Web site: GILFOYLE, Timothy J.. Loyola University Chicago. 28 November 2018.
5. Web site: Timothy Gilfoyle . Macmillanlearning.com . 2017-01-22.
6. Web site: Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Author of A Pickpocket's Tale) . Goodreads.com . 2017-01-22.