Andy Horowitz (JE ’03) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and serves as the Connecticut State Historian. As a scholar of the modern United States, he is the author of Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 (Harvard University Press), along with other works meant to help readers think through problems that are often imagined to be without precedent. As a public historian, he works to support communities as they engage in acts of collective autobiography. He has a B.A. from Yale College, a Ph.D. from Yale University, and an M.S.L. from Yale Law School. He was born and raised in New Haven.
