Faculty

Foley, Neil
Associate Professor

Office: GAR 3.202
Office Hours: On leave 2007-2008
Phone:512-475-7252
nfoley@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1990, University of Michigan

Research interests:
His current research centers on the changing constructions of race, citizenship, and national identity in the American Southwest and Mexico, and comparative civil rights politics of African Americans and Mexican Americans.

Courses taught:
Twentieth Century U.S. history, Latino History, race and ethnicity, legal and labor history, borderlands, and comparative civil rights.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: United States, Latin America

Thematic Field(s): Borderlands, Diaspora and Migration, Mexican American/Latino History, Race, Ethnicity and Nation

Awards/Honors:
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008-2009
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008-2009
Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship, 2007-2008
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship, Fall 2007 (declined)
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Mexico City, 2007-2008
American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 2006-2007
Frederick Jackson Turner Book Prize, Organization of American Historians, 1998
Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association, 1998
Charles Sydnor Book Award, Southern Historical Association, 1998
Robert G. Athearn Book Award, Western Historical Association, 1998
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, 1998

Recent Publications:
Professor Foley is the author of The White Scourge: Mexican, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997). He is currently working on a book on Latino and Black civil rights.