Neil Foley

Neil Foley is an American historian who studies U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the politics of immigration and citizenship in North America and Europe.^[1]

Life

Dr. Neil Foley graduated from the University of Virginia and earned a M.A. from Georgetown University. He also holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where he attained the Ph.D. in American Culture in 1990. His dissertation on "The new South in the Southwest: Anglos, Blacks, and Mexicans in Central Texas, 1880-1930" was directed by Rebecca J. Scott.^[2]

Foley has taught at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin.^[3][4]

In 2012 he began teaching at Southern Methodist University, where he holds the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History.^[5]

Awards

• Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians, for The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
• Pacific Coast Branch Award of the American Historical Association
• Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow ^[6]
• Guggenheim Fellowship^[7]
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• Fulbright Fellowship ^[8]

Works

• The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, University of California Press. University of California Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-520-20724-0. Neil Foley.
• Neil Foley, ed. (1998). Reflexiones 1997: New Directions in Mexican American Studies. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-72506-5.
• Neil Foley; John R. Chávez (2002). Teaching Mexican American history. American Historical Association. ISBN 978-0-87229-126-3.
• Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity. Harvard University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-674-05023-5.
• Mexicans in the Making of America. Harvard University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-674-04848-5.