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Thomas Andrews’ research and teaching are focused on western American, environmental, animal, Indigenous, and 19th- and 20th-century U.S. history. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health Grant for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award, and other fellowships.Ìý

He is the author of Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War, which won six awards including a Bancroft Prize, Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies, winner of a Colorado Book Award in History, and a book in progress on the Great Horse Flu of 1872-73. His articles and essays have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Western Historical Quarterly, and other venues.Ìý

Andrews was born and reared in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ and graduated from Fairview High School in 1990 before earning his BA at Yale and his MA and PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is one of only a handful of second-generation CU-ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ faculty members (his father, John T. Andrews, joined the Geology Department and the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research in 1968).Ìý

Before becoming a member of the CU ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ History Department in 2011, Thomas Andrews taught at CU-Denver and California State University-Northridge. He lives in Denver with his wife, two teenagers, and a toy Australian shepherd named Roxie. In his spare time, he likes to hike, ski, and spend time with friends and family.
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