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Andrew J. Falk is the chair of the Department of History, Professor of History, and a member of the Honors Faculty. He earned his B.A. and M.A. at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin before coming to Christopher Newport in 2005. He held the Franklin Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Georgia and served as Visiting Professor of History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

A specialist in the history of American foreign relations, he is the author of Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960 (University of Massachusetts Press) and the forthcoming Shadow Diplomats: American Humanitarianism in the Era of the World Wars (University of Pennsylvania Press). He has received several research grants, including from the New York Public Library and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Beyond the classroom, he has mentored many students in their undergraduate research projects, several of which have earned grants and fellowships, including the Fulbright Scholarship, and they have presented and published their prize-winning works. He also has co-led multiple study abroad trips throughout Europe and to China. He is the recipient of the University's Alumni Society Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, and the Class of 2013 Faculty Mentoring Award.

He is creator and host of the Past is Prologue podcast, available on all major platforms, which received the American Historical Association's inaugural Sinclair Prize for the most outstanding historical podcast.