Tim Keogh

(he/him/his)

Assistant Professor of History, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York

Tim Keogh earned his PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. His most recent book, In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb won the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize for best manuscript in New York History. His research focuses on the interplay between suburbanization, poverty, and public policy.

Publications

In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023)

War and the City: The Urban Context of Conflict and Mass Destruction (Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2020)

“The Kerner Report’s Landscape: Liberalism and the Urban-Suburban Divide,” Nonsite 30 (Winter 2020)

“Lessons From the Long Movement to Defund the Military,” The New Republic (June 18, 2020) (co-authored with Michael Brenes)

“The Significance of the Crabgrass Frontier in American Urban History,” Journal of Urban History 49, no. 1 (January 2023): 228-232

“Housing, Suburban.” In The World of Jim Crow America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, ed. Steven A. Reich (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2019), 368-372

Academic Interests

urban history, history of poverty, political economy

Education

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Ph.D. in History, 2016

M.Phil. in History, 2011

Hunter College

M.A. in History, 2010

Hofstra University

B.A. in History, summa cum laude, 2007

Nassau Community College

A.A. in Liberal Arts, summa cum laude, 2005