Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz
Assistant Professor • United States History
History Honors Advisor
Profile
Dr. Sandoval-Strausz specializes in the social and cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States. His first book, Hotel: An American History, is being published by Yale University Press in the fall of 2007.
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, architectural and cultural landscape history, legal history, historical and critical geography, history of capitalism, Latino history.
Selected Publications
“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
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 18777
American Legal History
Historiography
History of Social Life and Leisure
Seminar in American Landscape History
Seminar on Markets, Capitalism, and Consumer Culture