Neil Foley

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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]

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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. 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]

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  1. "Neil Foley". www.smu.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-27.
  2. Neil Francis Foley, "The new South in the Southwest: Anglos, Blacks, and Mexicans in Central Texas, 1880-1930" (University of Michigan; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1990. 9116179).
  3. "Home".
  4. "American History". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  5. See "Neil Foley: Professor, and Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History Associate Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies"
  6. "Neil Foley". Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  7. "Neil Foley - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04.
  8. "American History". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2009-11-10.