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Kevin Boyle

Kevin Boyle

· William Smith Mason Professor of American History / Department Chair

Northwestern University · History

Active 1971–2025

h-index57
Citations14.0k
Papers40935 last 5y
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About

Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History and serves as the Department Chair at Northwestern University's Department of History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990 and specializes in the history of the twentieth-century United States, with a particular focus on modern American social movements. Boyle's research interests include American history since 1900, economic and labor history, African Diaspora and African American history, legal and criminal history, and urban history. His scholarly work includes the publication of several influential books, notably 'The Shattering: America in the 1960s,' which provides a narrative history of the decade and its profound impact on American society. Other significant works include 'The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968,' 'Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons,' and 'Arc of Justice,' the latter of which received the National Book Award for nonfiction, the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Tolerance Book Award. Boyle has also contributed essays and reviews to prominent outlets such as The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has held fellowships from prestigious organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Andrew Carnegie Corporation.…

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Political Science
  • Statistics
  • Economics
  • Microeconomics
  • Geography
  • Sociology
  • Business
  • Machine Learning
  • Econometrics

Selected publications

Frequent coauthors

  • Wolfgang Bock

    Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway

    36 shared

  • Eugene Cotran

    Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway

    36 shared

  • James B. Apple

    36 shared

  • Adel Omar Sherif

    36 shared

  • Nathan J. Brown

    36 shared

  • John C. Bergstrom

    34 shared

  • Richard C. Bishop

    Virginia Tech

    31 shared

  • Thomas P. Holmes

    27 shared

Education

  • Ph.D., History

    University of California, Berkeley

    1992

  • B.A., History

    University of California, Berkeley

    1986

Awards & honors

  • The National Book Award for nonfiction
  • The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize
  • The Simon Weisenthal Center's Tolerance Book Award

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