Research Interests
Professor Foley's current research
centers on the changing constructions of race,
citizenship, and transnational identity in the
Borderlands, Mexico and the American West; Mexican
immigration; and comparative civil rights politics of
African Americans and Mexican Americans. He is the
author of The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and
Poor Whites in Texas (Berkeley, 1997);
Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of
Black-Brown Solidarity
(Harvard, 2010), and Latino USA: Mexicans and the
Remaking of America (forthcoming, Harvard, 2013).
He has co-authored (with John R. Chávez) Teaching
Mexican American History (2002) and he is also the
editor of Reflexiones: New Directions in Mexican
American Studies (1998).
He is the co-editor
of New York University Press series, American History
and Culture, and served on the selection jury for the
Pulitzer Prize in history in 2004. Professor Foley is a
Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American
Historians and has lectured extensively in the U.S.,
Europe and Latin America. For a number of years he lived
and taught in Mexico (Mexico City), Germany (Berlin,
Heidelberg, Stuttgart), Spain (Salamanca, Zaragosa), and
Japan (Misawa; Naha, Okinawa). He also spent two years
living on aircraft carriers where he taught sailors of
the U.S. Naval Forces 6th Fleet in the
Mediterranean Sea for the Navy’s Program for Afloat
College Education (PACE).
Awards, Fellowships, and Honors
- Texas Institute of Letters, Most
Significant Scholarly Book Award, 2011, for Quest
for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black Brown
Solidarity (Harvard, 2010)
-
Finalist,
William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction
Book on Southwestern America, 2011, for
Quest for Equality
-
A Huffington
Post Best Social and Political Awareness Book of the
year for 2010, for Quest for Equality
-
Nathan I.
Huggins Lectures in American History, W. E. B. Du
Bois Institute for African and African American
Research, Harvard University, April 2009
-
John
Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2008-2009
-
National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008-2009
-
Woodrow
Wilson International Center Fellowship, Wash., DC,
2007-2008
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Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship, Princeton, Fall 2007
(declined)
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Fulbright
Senior Research Fellowship, Centro de Investigación
y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City, 2007-2008
-
American
Philosophical Society Fellowship, 2006-2007
-
Fulbright
Senior Fellow, American Studies, Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany, 2000-2001
-
Frederick
Jackson Turner Book Prize, Organization of American
Historians, 1998, for The White Scourge:
Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas
(Berkeley, 1997)
-
Pacific
Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical
Association, 1998, for The White Scourge
-
Charles Sydnor Book Award, Southern Historical Association,
1998
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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
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T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission,
1998
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Robert W.
Hamilton Book Author Award, Grand Prize, University
of Texas Co-operative Society, 1998
-
Winner of the Green-Ramsdell Award of
the Southern Historical Association for the best
article published in The Journal of Southern
History in 1996 and 1997
Courses Taught:
Professor Foley’s teaching fields include 19th
and 20th century U.S. History;
Borderlands/Southwest history; Mexican American and
Latino History; The American West; Immigration,
Citizenship, and Transnational Identity in the
U.S.-Mexico borderlands; African American and Latino
Civil Rights Politics in the 20th Century;
and Legal, Labor, and Political History of the American
Southwest.
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