Dr. Andrew Gutkowski
Assistant Professor
Bio
Andrew Gutkowski is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, where he teaches courses in Environmental Justice, Social Advocacy, and Black Studies. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina (2020) with concentrations in Modern U.S., African American, and Environmental History. His current book project explores how post-war struggles over civil rights and industrial pollution in the U.S. South shaped the uneven distribution of environmental hazards – toxic waste facilities, Superfund sites, brownfields – that defines much of the region’s industrial landscape today. His research has recently been published in The Journal of American History.
- PHD - University of South Carolina-Columbia (2020)
- MA - Georgia College & State University (2014)
Undergraduate
BLS 401: Liberal Studies Research Seminar
IDS 350: Environmental Justice and Racism