Thomas G. Andrews 2350 Marion St. Denver, Colorado 80205 (303) 956-7536 [email protected] Employment University of Colorado Boulder Professor of History, 2016-present Director of Graduate Studies, 2017-present Associate Professor of History, 2011-2016 University of Colorado Denver Associate Professor of History, 2010-2011 Assistant Professor of History, 2007- 2010 California State University, Northridge Assistant Professor of History, 2003-2007 Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States History, 2003 Dissertation: “The Road to Ludlow: Work, Environment, and Industrialization in Southern Colorado, 1870-1915” Advisor: William Cronon Committee members: Colleen Dunlavy, Arthur McEvoy, William Reese Major Fields: United States, 1850-1950, environmental history Minor Field: Latin American, Canadian, and Caribbean history M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, History, 1997 Thesis: “Settling the San Luis Valley: Ecology, Society, and ‘Beautiful Roads’ in the Hispano Colonization of Conejos and Costilla Counties, Colorado” Advisor: William J. Cronon B.A. summa cum laude, Yale University, Distinction in History and International Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, 1994 Books An Animals’ History of the United States. Under contract with Harvard University Press. Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. (Finalist for the Colorado Book Award) Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. (Winner of the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University, George Perkins Marsh Award, Vincent DeSantis Prize, Caroline Bancroft Prize from Denver Public Library, Clark Spence Award, Colorado Book Award, Kayden Book Prize, and other honors) Articles and Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed) “Dust to Dust: The Colorado Coal Mine Explosion Crisis of 1910.” Pages 132-165 in Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522, ed. George Vrtis and John McNeil. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2017. Andrews, p. 2 “Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States.” Pages 21-47 in Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics, ed. Marguerite S. Shafer and Phoebe S.K. Young. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. “‘A Single Question that Once Moved Like Light’: Work, Nature, and History.” Pages 425-466 in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, ed. Andrew Isenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. “’Made by Toile’? Tourism, Landscape, and Labor in Colorado, 1858-1917.” Journal of American History 92 (December, 2005): 837-863. “Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920s.” Western Historical Quarterly 33 (Winter, 2002): 407-430. “Tata Atanasio Trujillo’s Unlikely Tale of Utes, Nuevo Mexicanos, and the Settling of Colorado’s San Luis Valley.” New Mexico Historical Review 75 (January, 2000): 4-41. Awards and Honors Colorado Book Award, History (for Coyote Valley), 2017 Society of American Historians (membership by election), 2016-present Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 2011-2016 Kayden Book Prize, CU-Boulder, 2012-13 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award, 2012 Carl Wheat Article Prize, Southern California Quarterly, best article by a senior scholar, 2011-‘12 100 Top Young Historians, History News Network, 2010 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 2009 George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History, 2009 Vincent DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2009 Caroline Bancroft Prize, Denver Public Library Western History Department, 2009 Colorado Book Award, History (for Killing for Coal), 2009 Clark Spence Award, Mining History Association, 2009 Honorable Mention, Clements Prize, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2009 Honorable Mention, Hundley Book Award, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, 2009 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Firestone Library, Princeton University, 2009 Best History Book, Westword Magazine’s “Best of Denver,” 2009 Alice Hamilton Article Prize, American Society for Environmental History, 2007 Ray Allen Billington Article Prize, Western History Association, 2006 Polished Apple Teaching Award, California State University-Northridge, 2005 Rachel Carson Dissertation Prize, American Society for Environmental History, 2004 Arrell M. Gibson Article Prize, Western History Association, 2003 Eleanor Adams Article Prize, New Mexico Historical Review, 2001 Grants and Other External Funding National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, 2016 Center for the Humanities and Arts Faculty Fellowship, 2013-2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 2011-12 John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Fellowship, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, 2009-10 Andrews, p. 3 American Council for Learned Societies Contemplative Practice Fellowship, 2007-8 Bill Lane Center for the North American West, Stanford University, Short-Term Fellow, 2007-8 Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship, Autry National Center, 2006-7 Faculty Research Grants, College of Behavioral and Behavioral Sciences, 2003-7 W. M. Keck Young Scholars Award, Huntington Library, 2005-6 National Institute for the Humanities Summer Institute on “The Redemptive West,” Huntington Library, 2005 John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Fellowship, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, 2004-5 Judge Julian Beck Instructional Improvement Grant, 2004-5 Research Grants (2), Rockefeller Archive Center, 2000-2001 and 2002-3 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowship, 1999- 2002 University Prize Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1995-9 Report (Non-Peer-Reviewed) “An Environmental History of the Kawuneeche Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park.” Final project report submitted to Rocky Mountain National Park, National Park Service, October, 2011. 534 pages. Essays (Non-Peer-Reviewed) “What the Strikers Were Fighting For.” Colorado Heritage (March/April 2014): 16-21. “Environmental History Meets the History of the Book: Bancroft’s Works in Perspective.” Proceedings of the Bancroft Library Sesquicentennial Symposium, ed. Charles Faulhaber. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. “Thomas Andrews on Robert Adams’s New West Landscapes.” Environmental History 16 (October, 2011): 701-714. “Toward an Environmental History of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s Works: The Nature and Culture of an Audacious Western Enterprise.” Southern California Quarterly 93 (Spring, 2011): 33-68. Book Reviews Review of Daniel Bender, The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo (Harvard University Press), in The Journal of Social History (August, 2017), shx078, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shx078 Review of Andrew Downing, Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Princeton University Press), in Western Historical Quarterly 47 (summer, 2016), 219. Review of Jen Corrinne Brown, Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West (University of Washington Press), Agricultural History 90 (spring, 2016), 267-277. Review of James Green, The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Atlantic Monthly Press), in Journal of Southern History 82 (February, 2016), 194- 196. Review of Andrew Scott Johnson, Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840-1890 (University Press of Colorado), in LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (December, 2015), 143-145. Review of Michael C. Steiner, ed., Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West (University of Oklahoma Press), in Southern California Quarterly 96 (Spring, 2014), 121-123. Review of Thomas J. Harvey, From Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley: Making the Modern Old West (University of Oklahoma Press), in Journal of American History 99 (December, 2012), 945-946. Review of Douglas R. Hurt, The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century (University of Arizona Press), in Great Plains Quarterly 32 (Spring, 2012), 146. Review of Myriam Vuckovic, Voices from Haskell: Indian Students between Two Worlds, 1884-1928 Andrews, p. 4 (University Press of Kansas), in Journal of American Ethnic History 30 (Winter, 2011), 89-91. Review of Jeffrey A. Johnson, “They Are All Red Out Here”: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925, in Journal of the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 9 (October, 2010), 545-547. Review of David W. Jones, Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis (Indiana University Press), in Journal of American History 96 (September, 2009), 100. Review of Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Great Basin (Harvard University Press), in Reviews in American History 35 (September 2007), 335-343. Review of Colin G. Calloway, One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press), in Southern California Quarterly, 86 (2005), 405-407. Review of Louis Warren, ed., American Environmental History (Blackwell Publishing), in Environmental History, 10 (2005), 550-551. Review of John F. Burns and Richard J. Orsi, eds., Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California