Rachel Nolan
Assistant Professor of International History
Rachel Nolan is a historian of modern Latin America. In archives and through interviews, she researches migration, political violence, the Central American armed internal conflicts, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Her first book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions from Guatemala, was published in January 2024 by Harvard University Press.
Nolan received her doctorate in Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University and her B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Boston University, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. Nolan’s research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, and Social Science Research Council.
Prior to becoming a historian, Nolan worked as a journalist. In addition to academic journals, she has written for publications including The New Yorker, New York Times, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, and El Faro. Nolan is a Contributing Editor at Harper’s Magazine. Now, she is working on a second book about histories of deportation to Latin America.
