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

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in 2017.

Biography

For me, history is the record not only of how things change, but how people make things change, how they act individually and collectively to create a better world.

Stovall earned a degree in history from

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in 1976. He earned a master's degree in 1978 at the

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, where he also earned a doctorate in 1984 with a thesis that eventually was published as a book called ''The rise of the Paris Red Belt''. He served as a high school teacher in 1978 before teaching at the

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, the

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, and

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. He then served as a professor and Dean of Humanities for the

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before returning to Berkeley. His last position was Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at

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

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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) *''White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea'' (2021)

References

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