Dr. Robert Llewellyn Tyler is from Newport, Wales. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia, his master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and his bachelor’s degree from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
His primary area of research has been nineteenth-century migration from Europe to the United States and Australia and the subsequent emerging forms of identity in diasporic communities. More specifically, he has considered the continuation, modification, and decline of discernible ethno-linguistic communities, focusing on their changing nature as they interacted with the host community and other migrant groups.
He has taught in Japan and Argentina, and at universities in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. For the academic year 2009-10, he was the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA. He has been widely published and remains an active researcher, with scholarly articles appearing recently in the journals Settler Colonial Studies, History Australia, Ethnohistory, and Journal of Migration History. His third book, The Welsh in Metro America: Respectability and Assimilation in San Francisco, Seattle, Columbus, and Milwaukee, 1870–1930, was published this year.
Books
The Welsh in Metro America: Respectability and Assimilation in San Francisco, Seattle, Columbus, and Milwaukee, 1870–1930, Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, (2024)
The Welsh in Metro America: San Francisco, Seattle, Columbus, and Milwaukee, 1870–1930, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, (Forthcoming 2024)
Wales and the American Dream, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2015)
The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town: Ballarat, Victoria, 1850-1900, University of Wales Press, (2010)
Articles
“Migrant Culture Maintenance among the Welsh in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA, 1870-1920.” Settler Colonial Studies DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2023.2231744
“Acculturation and Changes in Ethno-linguistic Cultural Expression. The Welsh in Ballarat, Victoria, in the Second half of the Nineteenth Century.” History Australia 20, 3 (2023), 333-352.
“Migrant Identity and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 1870-1930.” Ethnohistory 69, 3 (2022), 243-264.
“Migrant Identity and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 1870–1930.” Journal of Migration History 8 (2022), 122–148
“Migrant Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Mahaska County, Iowa, 1870-1920.” The Annals of Iowa 81, 1 (Winter, 2022), 43-73.
“Migrant Society and Culture: The Welsh in Madison County, Indiana, 1890-1920.” Indiana Magazine of History 117, 4 (2021), 266-295
“Migrant Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1870-1930.” Journal of American Ethnic History 40, 4 (2021), 86-112.
“Migrant Identity and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA, 1880-1920.” Immigrants and Minorities 38, 3 (2021), 205-232.
“Culture Maintenance in an Immigrant Community: The Welsh in Seattle, Washington 1890-1940.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 111, 4 (Fall, 2020), 134-148.
“Migrant Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Silver Bow County, Montana, 1890-1930.” Montana Magazine of Western History (Winter 2018), 20-35.
“Migrant Culture Maintenance: The Welsh Experience in Martins Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio, 1900–1940.” Ohio History 125, 1 (Spring 2018), 70-94.
“Migrant Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Granville, Washington County, New York, 1880-1930.” New York History (Winter 2018), 99-120.
“Culture Maintenance, Occupational Change, and Social Status: The Welsh in San Francisco, 1880-1930.” California History 94, 1 (Spring 2017), 6–25.
“Culture Maintenance, Occupational Mobility and Social Status: The Welsh in a Pennsylvania Slate Town 1900-1930.” Welsh History Review 28, 1 (July 2016), 115-145.
“Occupational Mobility and Social Status: The Welsh Experience in Sharon, Pennsylvania 1880-1930.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 83, 1 (Winter 2016), 1-27.
“Identity, Culture Maintenance and Social Mobility: The Welsh in Emporia, Lyon County, 1870-1930.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 38, 2 (Summer 2015), 65-78.
“Migrant Culture Maintenance: The Welsh Experience in Poultney, Rutland County 1900-1940.” Vermont History 83, 1 (Winter/Spring 2015), 19-42.
“Occupational Change, Culture Maintenance and Social Status: The Welsh in a Missouri Coal Town, 1870-1930.” Missouri Historical Review 109, 1 (October 2014), 18-40.
“Newid Galwedigaethol, Cynnal Diwylliant a Statws Cymdeithasol: Y Cymry mewn Tref Lofaol ym Missouri, 1870-1930.” Llafur 11, 3 (2014), 5-20.
“Welsh Settlement Patterns in a Nineteenth Century Australian Gold Town.” Local Population Studies 83 (Autumn 2009), 6-20.
“The Welsh Language Press in Colonial Victoria.” Victorian Historical Journal 80, 1 (June 2009), 45-60.
“Religiosity and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Colonial Australia.” The Welsh Journal of Religious History 3 (November 2008), 82-99.
“Y Wasg Gymraeg yn Nhrefedigaeth Awstralia yn y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg.” Llafur 10, 1 (2008), 21-31.
“The Welsh Language in a Nineteenth Century Australian Gold Town.” Welsh History Review 24, 1 (June 2008), 52-76.
“Gender Imbalance, Marriage Preference and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town 1850-1900.” Llafur 9, 3 (2006), 14-28.
“Occupational Mobility and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in a Nineteenth Century Australian Gold Town.” Immigrants and Minorities 24, 3 (November 2006), 277-299.
Reviews
Ogawa, Manako, Sea of Opportunity: The Japanese Pioneers of the Fishing Industry in Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i Press (2015) in Migration Letters: An International Journal of Migration Studies 13, 3 (September 2016).