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.
[3] 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.
[4] Gilfoyle is a Guggenheim Fellow (1998–99) and a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (1997).
The following are some of Gilfoyle's books:[6][4] This biography of an American historian is a stub.