Andrew P. Haley

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, and is currently an associate professor of American cultural history at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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. It is the 2012 recipient of the James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship. Andrew's next project, Dining in High Chairs, examines children and eating, both in public and private.