Neil Foley

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.

• 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]

• 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
• 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.

• "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