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About Rachel Newman
Rachel Grace Newman researches modern Mexico, migration, and families. She is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University and also has a Maestría in Regional Studies from the Colegio de Jalisco and B.A. in Latin American Studies from Yale University. Her book The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico’s Foreign-Educated Elite is published by the University of California Press.
Rachel Grace Newman is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University and the author of The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite, with UC Press.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rachel:
February 3, 2026
In the Shadow of El Tajín
Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination…
December 21, 2025
Caught in the Current
Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a "flow" of immigrants, a "flood" of documen…
November 25, 2025
The Fate of the Americas
Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United St…
November 13, 2025
Dictatorship Across Borders
Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War (UNC Press, 2025) offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean …
July 30, 2025
Between Here and There
Between Here and There is the first history of the creation of modern US-Mexico migration patterns narrated from multiple geographic and institutional…
January 4, 2025
Paternity
Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible t…
February 25, 2024
No Barrier Can Contain It
Ariel Mae Lambe’s new book No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) is a hist…
March 29, 2023
Cooperating with the Colossus
During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperat…
March 11, 2023
Abandoning Their Beloved Land
Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (U California Press, 2023) offers an essential new history of the Bracero P…
February 16, 2023
On Our Own Terms
During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evide…
October 5, 2022
The Middle Classes in Latin America
As a collective effort, The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies (Routledge, 2022) locates the formation of the…
August 2, 2022
The Mexico Reader
Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson's book The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke UP, 2022) is a vivid and comprehensive guide to …
October 26, 2021
La Güera Rodrígue
In La Guera Rodriguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine (U California Press, 2021), Silvia Marina Arrom traces the legends of Ma…
October 15, 2021
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining i…
August 3, 2021
Dancing with the Revolution
In Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba (UNC Press, 2021), Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing…
February 11, 2021
Revolution in Development
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (University of California Press, 2021) uncovers the surprising influence of…
January 4, 2021
Taxing Blackness
During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown…
September 8, 2020
Mafalda
Isabella Cosse’s Mafalda: A Social And Political History of a Global Comic (Duke University Press) is the definitive account of the most famous comic …
September 8, 2020
In the Vortex of Violence
In her new book In the In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California P…
July 3, 2020
Students of Revolution
Claudia Rueda’s book Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition-Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua (University of Texas Press, 2019) is a his…
June 3, 2020
Beatriz Allende
Tanya Harmer’s new biography, Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), explores how…
April 24, 2020
I Never Left Home
Margaret Randall’s new memoir, I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary was published by Duke University Press in March 2020. Randall, born in…
December 4, 2019
Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina
Donna Guy’s 2016 book Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina: Letters to Juan and Eva Perón (University of New Mexico Press) is a history of Peronist…
October 28, 2019
Making an Urban Public
Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) by Christina Jiménez is a social histor…