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Rachel Newman

Assistant Professor of History

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Rachel Grace Newman is a historian of modern Mexico with particular interests in migration, family, and social inequality. At 51勛圖厙, she teaches on these themes and other topics in modern Latin American, global history, and historical methods.

Her book manuscript, The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite, is under contract with the University of California Press. She has published related research in the Journal of Social History that won an award from the Latin American Studies Association's Mexico section. Her first book, based on her Master's thesis, was published in 2014.

With a background in the interdisciplinary fields of Latin American Studies and regional studies, Prof. Newman enjoys bringing perspectives from scholars with different methodologies into her teaching and research. She has also translated academic works from Spanish to English and enjoys writing and sharing her work in both languages. To help Latin American history reach a broader audience, she hosts interviews with scholarly authors for .

Prof. Newman was trained at Yale University, the Colegio de Jalisco in Zapopan, Mexico, and Columbia University. She previously taught at Smith College. She is originally from the California Bay Area, and she has also researched and studied in various places in Mexico (Chiapas, Guadalajara, and Mexico City).

BA 2009, Yale University, Latin American Studies
Maestr穩a 2012, Colegio de Jalisco, Regional Studies
PhD 2019, Columbia University, International and Global History

 

Prof. Newman's book manuscript The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite is under contract with the University of California Press.

This project was supported by the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award among other grants, and the resulting dissertation was recognized by the Latin American Studies Associations Mexico section. Related to this project, Prof. Newman published an essay in an edited volume in Mexico in 2020, and she has published an article in the Journal of Social History (Summer 2023), which won the Best Article in the Social Sciences Award from LASA's Mexico section.

Previously, she published a book on Mexican migrant children and education programs based on her research as a Masters student in western Mexico.

  • HIST108/ALST 208, Modern Latin America
  • HIST 199, History Workshop
  • HIST 229, Latin American Migrations
  • HIST 386, Mexico and the United States
  • CORE C171, Mexico
Books
Under contractThe Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
2014Los ni簽os migrantes entre Michoac獺n y California. Pertenencia, Estado-naci籀n y educaci籀n, 1976-1987. Zapopan, Jalisco: El Colegio de Jalisco.
Peer-reviewed articles
2023The Right to a Favor: International Scholarships, Clientelism, and the Class Politics of Merit in Post-Revolutionary Mexico. Journal of Social History, vol. 56, no. 4 (June 2023): 828-855.
2013Etnia, naci籀n y jerarqu穩a en la literatura infantil estadounidense sobre M矇xico, 1909-1939. Intersticios Sociales. Zapopan, Mexico: El Colegio de Jalisco. Year 3, no. 5.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
Under review"'This is Me, the Professor': Indigenismo and the Anthropologist Pablo Vel獺squez Gallardos Production of Knowledge in Midcentury California," for volume on Migrant Knowledge in the Americas, eds. Fabio Heupel Santos and Kevan Aguilar.
2020Pensar el intercambio acad矇mico como un flujo migratorio: el caso de los estudiantes mexicanos en Estados Unidos for Historias entrelazadas: el intercambio acad矇mico en el siglo XX. M矇xico, Estados Unidos, Am矇rica Latina, ed. Sebasti獺n Rivera Mir. Toluca, Mexico: El Colegio Mexiquense.
Book reviews

Forthcoming		Susana Sosenski, The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico: Media, Childhood, and Child Kidnapping, 1900-1968. American Historical Review.
2020Adri獺n F矇lix, Specters of Belonging: The Political Life Cycle of Mexican Migrants. Boom: A Journal of California.
2019Eileen Ford, Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City. Cultural and Social History, vol. 16, no. 5.
2018Ruben Flores, Backroads Pragmatists: Mexicos Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States. The Latin Americanist, vol. 62, no. 2.
2016Mary Kay Vaughan, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Painter. Pepe Z繳簽iga and Mexico Citys Rebel Generation. Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 48, no. 2.
2011Martha Vergara Fregoso et al., Educaci籀n Intercultural: un estudio de las comunidades ind穩genas en Jalisco. Estudios sobre las culturas contempor獺neas, vol. XVII, no. 33.
Public Engagement
2020Schools for All. The Campaign for Desegregation in El Monte, in East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, ed. Romeo Guzm獺n, Rutgers University Press.
2017Interview on television program American History, C-SPAN 3.
2017Las tensiones en la migraci籀n de estudiantes mexicanos a Estados Unidos: pasado y presente. Distancia por tiempos (education blog for the Mexican magazine Nexos).
2016A Truth that had to be Told: Uncovering the History of School Segregation in El Monte. Tropics of Meta (blog).

Prof. Newman's translations of articles originally composed in Spanish have appeared in the journals Latin American Perspectives, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and Intercultural Communication Studies.

2024Best Article in the Social Sciences, Latin American Studies Association-Mexico Section
2020Honorable Mention, Dissertation Prize, Latin American Studies Association-Mexico Section
2018Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2017Teaching Scholars Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
2015Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
2015Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, U.S. Department of Education
2015Grant-in-aid, Rockefeller Archives Center
2014Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council