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Kevin Gerard Boyle

William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University

Kevin Gerard  Boyle

Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the 20-century United States and modern American social movements. His most recent book is Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, which received the National Book Award for nonfiction, the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize, and the Simon Weisenthal Center’s Tolerance Book Award.

Publications:

Project Title: The Splendid Dead: An American Ordeal

More 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program
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    Leith Mullings

    Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

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    Louise I. Shelley

    Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair and University Professor, George Mason University

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    Thomas J. Sugrue

    Professor; Director of American Studies; Director, NYU Collaborative on Global Urbanism, New York University

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    Gregory T. Cushman

    Associate Professor of International Environmental History, University of Kansas

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