About

Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History and serves as the Department Chair at Northwestern University's Department of History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990 and specializes in the history of the twentieth-century United States, with a particular focus on modern American social movements. Boyle's research interests include American history since 1900, economic and labor history, African Diaspora and African American history, legal and criminal history, and urban history. His scholarly work includes the publication of several influential books, notably 'The Shattering: America in the 1960s,' which provides a narrative history of the decade and its profound impact on American society. Other significant works include 'The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968,' 'Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons,' and 'Arc of Justice,' the latter of which received the National Book Award for nonfiction, the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Tolerance Book Award. Boyle has also contributed essays and reviews to prominent outlets such as The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has held fellowships from prestigious organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Andrew Carnegie Corporation. Currently, Boyle is working on 'The Splendid Dead,' a micro-history exploring political extremism and repression in the early twentieth century. He teaches undergraduate courses on modern U.S. history, the civil rights movement, and racial violence, as well as graduate courses in twentieth-century American history, working-class history, and narrative history.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Statistics
• Economics
• Mathematics
• Geography
• Business
• Machine Learning
• Sociology
• Microeconomics
• Econometrics
• Environmental economics
• Medicine
• Regional science
• Marketing
• Actuarial science
• Management science
• Public economics
• Social psychology
• Environmental planning
• Environmental resource management
• Accounting
• Meteorology
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Capitalization of Property View Area Considering View Quality and Property Elevation

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Capitalization of urban tree cover: An internal meta-analysis

  Ecological Economics · 2025-07-15

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• <p><b>A Tale of Water and </b><b>Fish: Untangling the Capitalization Value of Bundled Ecosystem Services in Freshwater Lakes</b><b></b></p>

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Valuation of Forested River Riparian Buffers for Riverine Integrity and Climate Resilience

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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• Implicit Value of Urban Tree Cover: An Internal Meta -Analysis

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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• Early warning systems, mobile technology, and cholera aversion: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2024-03-02 · 11 citations

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• Detroit under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era

  Journal of American History · 2024-03-01 · 21 citations

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  Journal Article Detroit under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era Get access Detroit under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era. https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitunderfire/page/home. Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab, an initiative of the University of Michigan Department of History and the University of Michigan Carceral State Project. Edited by Matthew Lassiter. Reviewed Sept. 1–16, 2023. Kevin Boyle Kevin Boyle Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 4, March 2024, Pages 825–827, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaad434 Published: 01 March 2024

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• Valuation of forested river riparian buffers: Support for riverine integrity and climate resilience

  Forest Policy and Economics · 2024-12-28 · 1 citations

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• Investigating revealed preferences for urban waterway conditions: A hedonic property valuation study

  Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics · 2024-03-11 · 2 citations

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  Abstract This study examines the impact of urban waterway conditions on property market prices. In general, similar revealed preference studies typically focus on identifying the value associated with changes in attributes such as riparian vegetation or water quality. Using an index that classifies waterways based on the vegetation and channel conditions, we analyse both attributes. Our spatial hedonic property price model findings indicate that buyers are willing to pay premiums ranging from 2.7% to 8.5%, depending on vegetation and channel conditions. However, when the proximity to the waterway is accounted for, we found that properties adjacent to the highest‐ranked vegetation and channel conditions attract a higher premium of 12.8%. Overall, the implicit marginal effects for the distance–condition interaction variables indicate that for lower‐ranked waterway conditions, there is a relative aversion to being adjacent to waterways. The results suggest that there are significant gains to be realised from removing concrete‐lined channels and replacing them with stones for banks, or re‐creating unmodified channels, even if there is only limited scope for increasing vegetation.

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• Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Effects for Lake Water Quality

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023-07-17

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  This database provides model results, elasticity estimates, and descriptive statistics for output from Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Price Effects for Lake Water Quality manuscript. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.100.1.102122-0086R

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Frequent coauthors

• Wolfgang Bock

  Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway

  36 shared

• Eugene Cotran

  Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway

  36 shared

• James B. Apple

  36 shared

• Adel Omar Sherif

  36 shared

• Nathan J. Brown

  36 shared

• John C. Bergstrom

  34 shared

• Richard C. Bishop

  Virginia Tech

  31 shared

• Thomas P. Holmes

  27 shared

Education

• Ph.D., History

  University of California, Berkeley

  1992

• B.A., History

  University of California, Berkeley

  1986

Awards & honors

• The National Book Award for nonfiction
• The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize
• The Simon Weisenthal Center's Tolerance Book Award