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Andrew Offenburger is a Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. history at Yale University. His dissertation investigates the relationship between capitalist development and dispossession in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, 1880-1940. This research explores, in part, the history of a colony of Boers (white South Africans of Dutch descent) that formed in northern Mexico in 1903, after the South African War, and drifted into the U.S. Southwest two years later. Their experience in the region, from Chihuahua to the Mesilla Valley in New Mexico and beyond, reveals much about the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and Western capital and colonial expansion.
Offenburger also completed a Master's degree in African studies at Yale. For his thesis, he studied an anti-colonial prophetic movement called the "Xhosa Cattle Killing" along South Africa's Eastern Cape frontier in the 1850s.
Offenburger leads the editorial board of the academic journal Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies (www.safundi.com), a journal he founded in 1999, which is currently published by Routledge.
He and his wife, Marķa, have two daughters, Lindsay and Casey.
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