Neil Foley Explained

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.^[1]

He previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin.^[2]

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 ^[3]
• Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• Fulbright Fellowship ^[5]

Works

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: American History . 2009-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120224193242/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir00/Amer2.htm . 2012-02-24 .
2. Web site: Home.
3. Web site: Neil Foley . 2009-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081225140316/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=274732 . 2008-12-25 .
4. Web site: Neil Foley - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . www.gf.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604003315/http://www.gf.org/fellows/4694-neil-foley . 2011-06-04.
5. Web site: American History . 2009-11-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120224193242/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir00/Amer2.htm . 2012-02-24 .