Timothy Gilfoyle

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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.

He gained a B.A. in 1979, followed by a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 1987. 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.

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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).

He is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians (2011) and the American Antiquarian Society (2007).

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Bibliography The following are some of Gilfoyle's books:

• 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)
• (co-authored, 2008)
• The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York (2013)

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