Tyler E. Stovall

Tyler E. Stovall
color headshot of an older black man, wearing a suit and facing right
Born	Tyler Edward Stovall April 9, 1954 Gallipolis, Ohio, U.S.
Died	New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Professor Historian

Tyler Edward Stovall (April 9, 1954 – December 11, 2021) was an American academic and historian. He served as President of the American Historical Association in 2017.

Biography

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 titled The rise of the Paris Red Belt. 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 for the University of California, Santa Cruz and Stevenson University before returning to Berkely and retiring in 2015.

Stovall's studies specialized in the history of French suburbs, urban immigration, and post-colonial and transnational history.

Tyler E. Stovall died in New York City on December 11, 2021, at the age of 67.

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)