Andrew Needham

University of Michigan, PhD 2006.

I specialize in recent United States history, with teaching and research emphases in environmental, American Indian, and urban and suburban history as well as the history of the American West.

"'A Piece of the Action': Navajo Leadership, Energy Development, and Decolonization," in Exploitation and Opportunity: Indians and Energy in the Southwest. Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press, forthcoming.
“The End of Public Power: “Tax Fairness” and the Politics of the Electric Utility Industry,” in What’s Good for Business: Business and Politics since World War II. Kimberly Philips-Fine and Julian Zelizer, eds. Oxford University Press, 2012.

 “Sunbelt Imperialism: Boosters, Navajos, and Energy Development in the Metropolitan Southwest,” in Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space and Region in the American South and Southwest. Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuck, eds. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

“Beyond the Metropolis: Metropolitan Growth and Regional Transformation in Postwar America,” with Allen Dieterich-Ward. Journal of Urban History 35:7 (2009), 943-969. (Winner of the Urban History Association Award for best article of 2009)

"Power Lines: Urban-Hinterland Exchange and Indian Nationalism in the US Southwest ," in Exchange: Practices and Representations. Paris: University Paris-Sorbonne, 2005.

Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.