Neil Foley

Neil Foley is an American historian.

Life

He graduated from the University of Virginia, from Georgetown University with an M.A., and from the University of Michigan, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Culture in 1990. He taught at Humboldt University of Berlin.^[1] He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.^[2]

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

• The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, University of California Press. University of California Press. 1997. ISBN 9780520207240. http://books.google.com/books?id=KwQ_e24VVMoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Neil+Foley&ei=LIL5StGPIILWMNCO8ZsP#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity. Harvard University Press. 2010. ISBN 9780674050235. 
• Neil Foley, John R. Chávez (2002). Teaching Mexican American history. American Historical Association. ISBN 9780872291263. 

• Neil Foley, ed (1998). Reflexiones 1997: New Directions in Mexican American Studies. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292725065. http://books.google.com/books?id=uo18ilEZCXAC&dq=Neil+Foley&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=xttrkyXr_e&sig=x5GgeH0wZHnd2zqCdqWe44vb2d4&hl=en&ei=y4D5SpmjA4WANqHD7MoK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

External links

• "The White Scourge", University of California Press