Tyler Stovall
American academic and historian (1954–2021)
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Tyler Edward Stovall (April 9, 1954 – December 11, 2021) was an American academic and historian.[1] He served as president of the American Historical Association in 2017.[2]
April 9, 1954
Historian
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| Born | Tyler Edward Stovall April 9, 1954 Gallipolis, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | December 11, 2021 (aged 67) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupations | Professor Historian |
Biography
For me, history is the record not only of how things change, but how people make things change, how they act individually and collectively to create a better world.[3]
Stovall earned a degree in history from Harvard University in 1976. He earned a master's degree in 1978 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he also earned a doctorate in 1984 with a thesis that eventually was published as a book called The rise of the Paris Red Belt.[4] He served as a high school teacher in 1978 before teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the University of California, Berkeley, and Ohio State University. He then served as a professor and Dean of Humanities for the University of California, Santa Cruz before returning to Berkeley.[5] His last position was Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University.[6]
Stovall's studies specialized in the history of French suburbs,[7] urban immigration, and post-colonial and transnational history.[8]
Stovall died in New York City on December 11, 2021, at the age of 67.[9]
Publications
- The rise of the Paris Red Belt (1990)
- France since the Second World War (2002)
- Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, and Revolution (2012)
- Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light (2012)
- Transnational France: the Modern History of a Universal Nation (2015)
- White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea (2021)