Neil Foley is an American historian who studies U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the politics of immigration and citizenship in North America and Europe. [1]
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. His dissertation on "The new South in the Southwest: Anglos, Blacks, and Mexicans in Central Texas, 1880-1930" was directed by Rebecca J. Scott. [2]
Foley has taught at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin. [3] [4]
In 2012 he began teaching at Southern Methodist University, where he holds the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History. [5]
Neil Foley.