Rachel Nolan

Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Rachel Nolan is a historian of modern Latin America. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of international adoption from Guatemala, including an analysis of the anti-Indigenous violence that helped set off an adoption boom there. She has previously written about anti-Haitian racism in the Dominican Republic, anti-abortion politics in El Salvador, and anti-Maya racism in the US immigration system.

Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the ACLS/Mellon Foundation. Prior to becoming a historian, Dr. Nolan worked as a journalist. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and El Faro, among other publications. She is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine.

Areas of Expertise

• Communications
• History
• Immigration
• Policy
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social Inequality or Stratification

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Ethnographic Methods
• Interviews