Kevin Boyle is an author and professor of history at The Ohio State University. His 2004 book, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, won the National Book Award. Boyle was born in Detroit, Michigan, and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Detroit, now University of Detroit Mercy in 1982. In 1990, he received his doctorate from the University of Michigan, where he was mentored by Sidney Fine, biographer of Frank Murphy. Boyle's first academic job was as assistant professor of history at the University of Toledo. In 1994, Boyle was... appointed an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After promotion to associate professor, he served as director of the UMass-Amherst graduate program in history in 1999. Boyle was appointed a Fulbright scholar in 1997, and spent the school year as Mary Ball Washington Professor at University College Dublin where he taught the history of the American civil rights movement. Boyle's research covers 20th century American history. He studies the intersection of class, race, and politics.
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