Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History
Edited by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Author Information
Timothy J. Gilfoyle is a professor and former chair of history at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American urban and social history. He is also a past president of the Urban History Association and an associate editor of the Journal of Urban History. Gilfoyle's research focuses on the development and evolution of various 19th-century urban underworld subcultures and informal economies, exemplified by 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 most recently The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo (Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2013). His other books include Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Flash Press: Sporting Men's Weeklies in the 1840s, coauthored with Patricia Cline Cohen and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Contributors:
Peter C. Baldwin
University of Connecticut
Betsy A. Beasley
Harvard University
Brian D. Behnken
Iowa State University
Chad Berry
Berea College
David Blanke
Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Charlotte Brooks
Baruch College, City University of New York
David Brundage
University of California, Santa Cruz
Vincent J. Cannato
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Christopher D. Cantwell
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Court Carney
Stephen F. Austin State University
James Connolly
Ball State University
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman
University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew Diamond
Sorbonne Université
Chris Elcock
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Alexander Elkins
University of Michigan
Ansley Erickson
Columbia University
Robbie Ethridge
University of Mississippi
John Fairfield
Xavier University
Maureen A. Flanagan
Illinois Institute of Technology
Margaret Garb
Washington University in St. Louis
Lily Geismer
Claremont McKenna College
Erik S. Gellman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
John Gennari
University of Vermont
Robert R. Gioielli
University of Cincinnati
David Goldfield
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Risa L. Goluboff
University of Virginia
Hardy Green
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Claudrena N. Harold
University of Virginia
Leslie M. Harris
Northwestern University
Emma Hart
University of St. Andrews
Jeffrey Helgeson
Texas State University
Hidetaka Hirota
City College of New York, City University of New York
Emily K. Hobson
University of Nevada, Reno
Ella Howard
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Joseph E. Hower
Southwestern University
D. Bradford Hunt
Newberry Library, Chicago
Andrew Hurley
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Victor Jew
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ann Durkin Keating
North Central College
Christopher Klemek
George Washington University
Clement Lai
California State University, Northridge
Erika Lee
University of Minnesota
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Oberlin College
Cindy Lobel
Lehman College, City University of New York
Daryl Joji Maeda
University of Colorado, Boulder
Brian McCammack
Lake Forest College
Austin McCoy
Auburn University
Megan Kate Nelson
Writer and Historian based in Lincoln, Massachusetts
Phuong Nguyen
California State University, Monterey Bay
Becky Nicolaides
University of California, Los Angeles
Carl Nightingale
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Peter Norton
University of Virginia
Suleiman Osman
George Washington University
Dominic Pacyga
Columbia College Chicago
Mark Padoongpatt
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Harold Platt
Loyola University, Chicago
Jessica Pliley
Texas State University
Gail Radford
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Christopher Reed
Roosevelt University
Jonathan Rees
Colorado State University, Pueblo
Emily A. Remus
University of Notre Dame
Steven A. Riess
Northeastern Illinois University
Kyle Roberts
Loyola University, Chicago
Nicolas Rosenthal
Loyola Marymount University
Elihu Rubin
Yale University
Margaret Rung
Roosevelt University
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Penn State University
David Schley
Hong Kong Baptist University
Christopher W. Schmidt
Illinois Institute of Technology
David Schuyler
Franklin and Marshall College
Robert O. Self
Brown University
Jessica Sewell
University of Virginia
Adam Shprintzen
Marywood University
Christopher Silver
University of Florida
Adam Sorensen
University of Virginia
Jordan Stanger-Ross
University of Victoria
Tyina Steptoe
University of Arizona
Thomas Sugrue
New York University
Kristin M. Szylvian
St. John's University
Chloe Taft
Independent Scholar
David Tanenhaus
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Joel A. Tarr
Carnegie Mellon University
Lorrin Thomas
Rutgers University, Camden
H. Paul Thompson Jr.
North Greenville University
David Torstensson
Pugatch Consilium
Matthew Vaz
City College of New York, City University of New York
Patrick Vitale
Eastern Connecticut State University
Wendy L. Wall
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Eric Weisbard
University of Alabama
Andrew Wiese
San Diego State University
Daniel Wilson
Muhlenberg College
LaDale Winling
Virginia Tech
Jay Young
Archives of Ontario
Judy Yung
University of California, Santa Cruz
Xiaojian Zhao
University of California, Santa Barbara