Education: Dr. Sandoval-Strausz specializes in the social and cultural history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. His first book, Hotel: An American History (Yale University Press, 2007), won the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2007 by Library Journal. Click these links for book reviews and interviews featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, The Economist, Bloomberg.com, Reason, Columbia, City Journal, the Glasgow Herald, The Age (Melbourne), and Sotsial'nie i Gumanitarnie Nauk (Russian Federation).
Education: B.A. in History, Columbia University, 1992, M.A. in History, University of Chicago, 1997, Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago, 2002.