Background
Tyler E. Stovall was born on September 4, 1954, in Gallipolis, Ohio, United States. He is the son of Tyler, Sr. and Barbara Stovall.
Tyler E. Stovall was born on September 4, 1954, in Gallipolis, Ohio, United States. He is the son of Tyler, Sr. and Barbara Stovall.
Stovall graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then received his master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1978 and 1984, respectively.
Stovall has been working at the University of California at Santa Cruz since 1988. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Professor of History and dean of humanities there. Stovall joined UC Santa Cruz as Dean of Humanities in April 2015. Prior to that, he was a professor of French history and dean of the Undergraduate Division of the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley. Before UC Berkeley, Stovall spent 13 years as a faculty member in the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division. During his last three years at Santa Cruz, he also served as chair of the History Department and provost of Stevenson College.
Stovall has also taught at Ohio State University and was a visiting professor at the Université de Polynésie Française in Tahiti.
Stovall is best known as the author of several books and numerous articles in the field of modern French history, specializing in transnational history, labour, colonialism, and race. These include The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal Nation, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light, Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism and Revolution (New Studies in European History), France Since the Second World War: Seminar Studies in History, and The Rise of the Paris Red Belt.
(Arranged in a broad chronological framework, the book exa...)
2001(In this compelling volume, Tyler Stovall takes a transnat...)
2015(The sixteen essays in The Color of Liberty offer a wealth...)
2003(This transnational history of Paris in 1919 explores the ...)
2012Stovall is a member of the American Historical Association and Western Society for French History.
Stovall is married to Denise Herd since August 20, 1988. The couple has no children.
