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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