Andrew P. Haley
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
Liberal Arts Building 451
601-336-0708
andrew.haley@usm.edu
Andrew P. Haley studies class and culture in the United States from the Gilded Age through the 1950s. He has a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor degree from Tufts University.
His first book, Turning the Tables: American Restaurant Culture and the Rise of the Middle Class, 1880-1920, was published by University of North Carolina Press in May 2011. In Turning the Tables, Andrew argues that changes in restaurant culture at the turn of the century—battles over French-language menus, scientific eating, cosmopolitan cuisine—demonstrate the growing influence of urban middle-class consumers. His previous publications include articles in Midwestern Folklore and Food & History. He is the recipient of grants from the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, the Committee on Services and Resources for Women at USM, the Aubrey Keith Lucas and Ella Ginn Lucas Endowment for Faculty Excellence at USM, the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrew’s next project, tentatively titled Dining in High Chairs, examines children and eating, both in public and private. His further interests include Chinese cuisine in the United States, nineteenth-century perceptions of cooking in New Orleans, “virtual restaurants” in the 1950s, and historical perceptions of taste. In the fall of 2010, he served as the Big Read scholar-in-residence for southern Mississippi.
Andrew loves to teach. He specializes in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, an age when every aspect of modern American life took shape. He is especially interested in the cultural lives of everyday Americans and has taught courses on popular culture, labor, gender, food, and nationalism.
Department of History
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