Neil Foley

{{short description|American historian|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Neil Foley is an American historian who studies U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the politics of immigration and citizenship in North America and Europe.{{Cite web |title=Neil Foley |url=https://www.smu.edu/dedman/academics/departments/history/people/facultystaff/neilfoley |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=www.smu.edu |language=en}}

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.Neil Francis Foley, "The new South in the Southwest: Anglos, Blacks, and Mexicans in Central Texas, 1880-1930" (University of Michigan; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1990. 9116179).

Foley has taught at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=http://www.utexas.edu/opa/experts/profile.php?id=123}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir00/Amer2.htm |title=American History |access-date=2009-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224193242/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir00/Amer2.htm |archive-date=2012-02-24 }}

In 2012 he began teaching at Southern Methodist University, where he holds the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History.See [https://www.smu.edu/dedman/academics/departments/history/people/facultystaff/neilfoley "Neil Foley: Professor, and Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History Associate Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies" ]

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 {{Cite web |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=274732 |title=Neil Foley |access-date=2009-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225140316/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=274732 |archive-date=2008-12-25 }}
  • Guggenheim Fellowship{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/4694-neil-foley |title=Neil Foley - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |website=www.gf.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604003315/http://www.gf.org/fellows/4694-neil-foley |archive-date=2011-06-04}}
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
  • Fulbright Fellowship {{Cite web |url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir00/Amer2.htm |title=American History |access-date=2009-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224193242/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir00/Amer2.htm |archive-date=2012-02-24 }}

Works

  • {{cite book| title=The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, University of California Press | url=https://archive.org/details/whitescourgemexi0000fole| url-access=registration | quote=Neil Foley. | publisher=University of California Press| year=1997| isbn= 978-0-520-20724-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Reflexiones 1997: New Directions in Mexican American Studies| editor=Neil Foley| publisher=University of Texas Press| year= 1998| isbn= 978-0-292-72506-5| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uo18ilEZCXAC&q=Neil+Foley }}
  • {{cite book| title=Teaching Mexican American history |author=Neil Foley |author2=John R. Chávez | publisher=American Historical Association| year=2002| isbn=978-0-87229-126-3 }}
  • {{cite book| url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050235| title=Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity| publisher=Harvard University Press| year= 2010| isbn= 978-0-674-05023-5 }}
  • {{cite book| url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674048485| title=Mexicans in the Making of America| publisher=Harvard University Press| year= 2014| isbn= 978-0-674-04848-5}}

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