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Andrew Offenburger

Education

• PhD 2014, Yale University, History
• MA 2008, Yale University
• BA 1998, Buena Vista University

Teaching and Research Interests

• American West
• Global Midwest
• Borderlands
• Comparative Frontiers

Work in Progress

Dr. Offenburger is currently researching the history of the American road trip genre, as well as the .

He enjoys advising and working with students who have interests in the American West, frontier zones, Native American history, and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.  Students with a particular interest in the Midwest, the Old Northwest, Ohio, or Southern Africa history are also encouraged to contact Dr. Offenburger.

Courses Taught

• HST 244 Raiders of the Lost Archive
• HST 312 The American West
• HST 450 Researching Midwestern History

Selected Publications

• “Fall of the House of Keller: ‘Empire’ and Revolution in Baja California, 1910-1940,” Pacific Historical Review (2022)
•  (Nebraska Press, 2021)
•  (Yale Press, 2019)
• “U.S. Expansion and the Creation of the ‘Middle West’ in the Nineteenth Century,” in Jon K. Lauck, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (forthcoming [2021])
• “Millenarianism in Iowa and the Eastern Cape: Thinking through Field of Dreams and the Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement,” English Studies in Africa 61, no. 1 (2018)
• "Outlanders and Inlanders: Boer Immigration to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1902-1905" in Brian Cannon and Jessie Embry, eds., Immigrants in the Far West: Historical Identities and Experiences, University of Utah Press, 2015
• "Cultural Imperialism and the Romanticized Frontier: From South Africa and Great Britain to New Mexico's Mesilla Valley," Amerikastudien / American Studies 59, no. 4, 2014
• "When the West Turned South: Making Home Lands in Revolutionary Sonora," Western Historical Quarterly 45, no. 3, 2014
• "The Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement in History and Literature," History Compass 7, no. 6, 2009
• "Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's Heart of Redness," Research in African Literatures 39, no. 3, 2008
• "Smallpox and Epidemic Threat in Nineteenth-Century Xhosaland," African Studies 67, no. 2, 2008

Selected Grants and Awards

• (2020) 
•  (2020)
• Frederick W. Beinecke Prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Western American History, Yale University, 2014.
• Bert M. Fireman Award, Western History Association, for the best student article published in the Western Historical Quarterly each year, as judged by the editors of the WHQ, 2014