Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Timothy J. Gilfoyle
	Title:	Chair
	Office:	Crown Center 515
	Phone:	773.508.2232
	E-mail:	tgilfoy@luc.edu

Personal Information

Timothy J. Gilfoyle is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American urban and social history. He is the author of A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York (W.W. Norton, 2006); City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (W.W. Norton,1992), and Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (University of Chicago Press and the Chicago History Museum, 2006). He most recently published The Flash Press: Sporting Men's Weeklies in the 1840s, coauthored with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and is completing an edited version of The Autobiography of George Appo. Gilfoyle was educated at Columbia University (B.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1987) and has published over fifty articles in journals such as American Quarterly, Prospects, New York History, The Missouri Review, and the Atlantic. He writes a regular "Making History" feature in Chicago History based on oral history interviews he collects for the Chicago Historical Society. Gilfoyle is an associate editor of the Journal of Urban History (responsible for assigning recently published books in U.S. urban history for review), a co-editor (with Kathleen Neils Conzen, James R. Grossman and Becky Nicolaides) of the "Historical Studies in Urban America" series of the University of Chicago Press, and has served on the editorial boards for New York History, The Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale University Press, 1995), The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (University of Chicago Press, 2004 ), and the New-York Journal of American History. He is a member of the board of directors for the Chicago Metro History Education Center and a trustee of the Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society). Gilfoyle has been a Minow Family Foundation Fellow (2001-02), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (1998-99), a Senior Fellow at the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (1997) and a N.E.H./Lloyd Lewis Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago (1993-94). He is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians (2011) and the American Antiquarian Society (2007).