Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz

Associate Professor, United States History
History Honors Advisor
Affiliated Faculty, UNM Law School
Review Editor, Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum

Contact

email: aksandov@unm.edu

office: Mesa Vista 2095

office phone: (505) 277-2046

Profile

Dr. Sandoval-Strausz specializes in the social and cultural history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. His first book, Hotel: An American History (Yale University Press, 2007), won the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2007 by Library Journal. Click these links for book reviews and interviews featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, The Economist, Bloomberg.com, Reason, Columbia, City Journal, the Glasgow Herald, The Age (Melbourne), and Sotsial'nie i Gumanitarnie Nauk (Russian Federation).

Education

B.A. in History, Columbia University, 1992

M.A. in History, University of Chicago, 1997

Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago, 2002

Research

United States urban history, Latino history, architectural and cultural landscape history, legal history, history of capitalism, historical and critical geography.

Selected Publications

"Latino Vernaculars and the Future of the American Landscape," Buildings & Landscapes 21 (2013)

"Spaces of Commerce: A Historiographic Introduction to Certain Architectures of Capitalism," Winterthur Portfolio 44 (2010)

“Homes for a World of Strangers: Hospitality and the Origins of Multiple Dwellings in America,” Journal of Urban History 23 (2007)

“Travelers, Strangers, and Jim Crow: Law, Public Accommodations, and Civil Rights in America,” Law and History Review 23 (2005)

“Princes and Maids of the City Hotel: The Cultural Politics of Commercial Hospitality in America” (with Daniel Levinson Wilk), Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 25 (2005)

“A Public House for a New Republic: The Architecture of Accommodation and the American State, 1789-1809,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture IX (2003)

Awards

 

2013-2016 Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians

2010-2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award

2008 American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award for Hotel: An American History

2004-2005 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society (declined)

2001 Ignacio Martín-Baró Human Rights Essay Prize

1999-2000 University of Chicago William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship

1999-2000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (declined)

1999-2000 Huntington Library Research Fellowship

1999-2000 Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowship

1999-2000 New-York Historical Society Rosenwald Research Fellowship

1999-2000 Library Company of Philadelphia Research Fellowship

1999-2000 University of Chicago Von Holst Lectureship Prize

1998-1999 Harvard University Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Traveling Fellowship

Courses

America to 1877
United States Since 1877
American Legal History
Historiography
History of Social Life and Leisure
Seminar in American Landscape History
Seminar on Markets, Capitalism, and Consumer Culture