Andrew Busch

Biographical Info

Andrew M. Busch is Associate Professor and Director of the Western Program in Individualized Studies. He an interdisciplinary historian who studies and teaches in sustainability, political economy, urbanism, and technology in the recent United States. He received his PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Busch is the author of City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth Century Austin, Texas (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and co-author of Republic of Barbecue: Stories beyond the Brisket (University of Texas Press, 2009). He is currently working on High Tech Texas: How Public Investment Supports Private Growth, a project under contract with the University of Texas Press and supported by a fellowship from the Clements Center for Southwestern Studies at Southern Methodist University. His future projects include a history of the transnational grocery chain Whole Foods Market and a political economic study comparing urban renewal and gentrification in American cities.