Vincent DiGirolamo is an associate professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York, where he specializes in 19th and 20th century America, with a focus on workers, children, immigrants, city life, and print culture. He is the author of the prize-winning book Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019).
His writing has appeared in Labor History, Radical History Review, the Journal of Social History, and many newspapers and magazines, including Time, American Heritage, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, India Today, and the London Times. DiGirolamo’s research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Woodrow Wilson Society, among others.
A practitioner of public history, DiGirolamo has contributed to history and art exhibits at the Newark Public Library and the Detroit Institute of Art, and he co-produced the award-winning PBS documentary Monterey’s Boat People. Originally from Monterey, California, he received his BA in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, his MA in Comparative Social History from UC Santa Cruz, and his PhD in history from Princeton University.