Thomas G. Andrews, PhD, specializes in the social and environmental history of the American West. Professor Andrews graduated with a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first book, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Harvard University Press, 2008), won six awards, including the Bancroft Prize. His most recent book, Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies (Harvard University Press, 2015), is an environmental history of the Colorado headwaters region of Rocky Mountain National Park. He is now working on a multi-book project on human-animal relationships in U.S. history. Andrews is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award, and other honors.