Timothy Gilfoyle

{{short description|American historian from New York}}

{{Infobox academic|

| occupation = Historian

| name =

| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Columbia University (BA, PhD)

| workplaces = Loyola University Chicago

| sub_discipline = Urban history

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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (1998)

}}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.{{cite web|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/G/T/au5266987.html |title=Timothy J. Gilfoyle |website=Press.uchicago.edu |date= |accessdate=2017-01-22}}

He gained a B.A. in 1979,{{Cite web|title=Columbia College Today|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan_feb07/bookshelf1.html|access-date=2022-01-12|website=www.college.columbia.edu}} followed by a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 1987.{{cite web|url=http://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/Author/timothygilfoyl |title=Macmillan Learning |publisher=Macmillan Learning |date= |accessdate=2017-01-22}} 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. {{cite web|url=https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/gilfoyletimothyj.shtml|title=GILFOYLE, Timothy J.|publisher=Loyola University Chicago|accessdate=28 November 2018}}