Andrew Robichaud

Andy Robichaud is the Dee Fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the 2013-2014 academic year. He comes to the Center with broad interests in American history, the North American West, and Environmental History, with experience in spatial and digital analysis. His dissertation, “The Animal City: Remaking Human and Animal Lives, 1830-1910,” examines the centrality of animals in nineteenth-century urban life and traces the development of city life, animal regulation, and human-animal relationships into the twentieth century. His present and past projects have focused, in large part, on the development of the city of San Francisco.

Andy is also affiliated with the Stanford Spatial History Lab and the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, where he leads the Animal City project.