Andrew Robichaud
Assistant Professor of History
Andrew Robichaud teaches courses in American history, including courses related to environmental history, urban history, animal history, and the history of Boston. He specializes in nineteenth-century America.
Robichaud is the author of Animal City: The Domestication of America (Harvard, 2019). The book explores the central role of animal life and death in nineteenth-century cities, and traces a web of interconnected social, cultural, political, and environmental changes. Robichaud’s dissertation on the topic received the 2015 Michael Katz Award from the Urban History Association for best dissertation in urban history (no geographic restriction).