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Biography

Andrew J. Falk is Associate Dean of Humanities, Professor of History, and Director of the Institute for Public Humanities. He earned his B.A. and M.A. at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin before coming to 91̽�� Newport in 2005. He held the Franklin Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Georgia and served as Visiting Professor of History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. From 2019 to 2025, he served as chair of the Department of History.

A specialist in the history of American foreign relations, he is the author of Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960 (University of Massachusetts Press) and the forthcoming Shadow Diplomats: American Humanitarianism in the Era of the World Wars (University of Pennsylvania Press). He has received several research grants, including from the New York Public Library and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Beyond the classroom, he has mentored many students in their undergraduate research projects, several of which have earned grants and fellowships, including the Fulbright Scholarship, and they have presented and published their prize-winning works. He also has co-led multiple study abroad trips throughout Europe and to China. He is the recipient of the University's Alumni Society Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, and the Class of 2013 Faculty Mentoring Award.

Dr. Falk is also deeply involved in the area of digital humanities. He is creator and host of the Past is Prologue podcast, available on all major platforms, which received the American Historical Association's inaugural Sinclair Prize for the most outstanding historical podcast. He is also the co-director of The Monitor Project, a federal grant-funded virtual reality experience that interprets the history of the famed American Civil War ironclad. It combines documents and artifacts, as well as high-resolution sonar scans, 3D digital designs, and artificial intelligence, to offer an immersive educational experience for students and wider audiences. And he is the creator of Shadow Diplomats, a project that utilizes the ArcGIS mapping (StoryMaps) platform to document refugee voyages and resettlement during the era of the world wars.

Dr. Falk also has served as co-curator of two museum exhibitions, the most recent of which commemorated the 250th anniversary of American independence and was part of an official partnership with the Commonwealth of Virginia (VA250).