Rate My Professor Catherine Nolan

Her research specializations include migration, refugees, citizenship and nationality, modern Mexico and Guatemala, and the history of gender in Latin America. Nolan-Ferrell authored the book Constructing Citizenship: Transnational Workers and Revolution on the Mexico-Guatemala Border, 1880-1950 (University of Arizona Press, 2012), along with its Spanish edition La construcción de ciudadanía: los trabajadores transnacionales y la Revolución en la frontera México Guatemala, 1880-1950 (UNAM/CIMSUR, 2018). Key publications also encompass 'Pedimos Posada: Local Mediators and Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico, 1978-1984' in Historia Crítica (2021), 'Agrarian Reform and Revolutionary Justice in the Soconusco, Chiapas: Campesinos and the Mexican State, 1934-1940' in Journal of Latin American Studies (2010), and 'Coffee Workers, Transnational Communities, and Identity on the Guatemalan/Mexican Border, 1931-1941' in Workers Across the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2011). Her current book project, Migrants or Refugees? Violence and Forced Migration in Southern Mexico and Guatemala, 1950-2000, examines Guatemalan migration into Chiapas amid mass violence. Among her major awards are a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions ($60,000, 2022-2023), UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Awards for Teaching Excellence (2012) and Community Engagement (2020), Fulbright IIE-García Robles Research Grant (1996-1997), and American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Grant (2004). She leads study abroad and service learning programs in Oaxaca, Mexico, and contributes to public history through oral history workshops.