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The state capitol in Des Moines, Iowa.The church of Itati, Argentina.Rhodes University.A lighthouse near Ushuaia, Argentina.A bountiful harvest in Greene County, Iowa.The Grand Canyon in Arizona.A lake in San Martin de los Andes, Argentina.
"A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

— John Steinbeck
A Brief Biography

Andrew Offenburger is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Yale University. His research focuses on the history of the American West placed within a broader context of global migrations and frontiers in the Atlantic world.

Andrew earned his M.A. in African Studies through Yale's Council on African Studies (2008), which culminated in his M.A. thesis on the history and cultural memory of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856-1857 in South Africa (www.xhosacattlekilling.net).

While at Yale, Andrew leads the editorial board of an academic journal, Safundi: The Journal of South African & American Studies (www.safundi.com), which is currently published by Routledge.

Andrew is originally from Johnston, Iowa. His wife, Maria, is from Corrientes, Argentina. Their daughter, Lindsay, is two years old.











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