Neil Foley

Neil Foley is an American historian.

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.

Foley has taught at Humboldt University of Berlin.

He previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Foley began teaching at Southern Methodist University in August 2012.

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
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• Fulbright Fellowship

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.

External links

• "The White Scourge", University of California Press
• "Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity", Harvard University Press
• "Mexicans in the Making of America", Harvard University Press