The Loyola University Chicago Department of History welcomes Elliott J. Gorn, an internationally recognized scholar and an award-winning undergraduate teacher, as the Joseph A. Gagliano Professor of American Urban History. Gorn studied with Lawrence Levine at the University of California at Berkeley where he received a M.A. in Folklore and with David Brion Davis at Yale where he completed his Ph.D. Before joining Loyola’s History Department in Fall 2012, Gorn taught at Alabama, Miami of Ohio, Purdue and most recently Brown University. Gorn strengthens Loyola’s course offerings in social, cultural and urban history. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Chair in North American Studies in Finland, the Huntington Library, and the Newberry Library. Gorn’s research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century America, popular culture, gender, and working-class history. He is the author or editor of 12 books, most notably Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year that Made America’s Public Enemy Number One (Oxford University Press, 2009), Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Hill and Wang, 2001), The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America (Cornell University Press, 1986), and (with Warren Goldstein) A Brief History of American Sports (Hill and Wang, 1993). Gorn’s numerous articles have appeared the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, American Quarterly, Journal of Urban History, Harper’s Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Le Monde Diplomatique and Slate.