He received his Ph.D. in history from Indiana University in 2008. Andrew has received fellowships and support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the North Caroliniana Society, the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, and the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke University, and is the recipient of 2007 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians. Articles based on his research have been published in the Journal of American History and the Journal of Social History. He and his wife, Aileen, live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.