Timothy J. Gilfoyle is an American historian from New York who is a professor of history at

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, where he teaches American urban and social history. He gained a B.A. in 1979, followed by a Ph.D. in history at

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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.

Honors and awards

Gilfoyle is a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

(1998–99) and a senior fellow at the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is t ...

(1997). He is an elected fellow of the

Society of American Historians The Society of American Historians, founded in 1939, encourages and honors literary distinction in the writing of history and biography about American topics. The approximately 300 members include professional historians, independent scholars, jou ...

(2011) and the

American Antiquarian Society The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture. Founded in 1812, it is the oldest historical society in ...

(2007).

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) * '' The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York'' (co-authored, 2008) * ''The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York '' (2013)

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