Andrew Gulliford

• Name — Andrew Gulliford • Born — 2 November 1953 • Occupation — Author, historian • Website — andrewgulliford.com

Gulliford, who grew up in Lamar, Colorado, completed his bachelor's degree in American history and his master's degree in teaching at Colorado College. He gained a doctorate in American culture and history at Bowling Green State University.

Gulliford worked as a fourth-grade teacher in Silt, Colorado, and, before studying for his doctorate, taught American history at Colorado Mountain College's Rifle branch. In 1997, Gulliford began a three-year stint as director of the Western New Mexico University Museum. Between 1990 and 2000, he was a professor of the Public History and Historic Preservation program at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2000, he became the director of the Center of Southwest Studies prior to becoming a professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He received the Fitch Foundation's Mid-Career Fellowship in 1991, based on his research on the preservation of tribal history. He wrote "Gulliford's Travels", a monthly column in The Durango Herald.