Andrew McMichael is professor of history and the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery. He served as assistant dean of Western Kentucky’s Potter College of Arts & Letters from 2009 to 2016 before assuming the role of associate dean. McMichael earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from George Mason University and earned his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. He also earned a certificate from Harvard University’s Management Development Program. He has served as author, co-author or editor for eight books and has published a dozen peer-reviewed articles, chapters and entries. His research and teaching interests include British colonial North America and its connections with Latin America, as well as the cultural history of alcohol. As a faculty member, McMichael said he places on emphasis on challenging students “to think about history in new ways” and to pay careful attention to how it is “packaged, sold and `used’ in the public space.” McMichael served as the AHA’s communications associate and first webmaster from 1996–99.