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Rachel Nolan<\/a>, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed a contributing editor at Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, the oldest general-interest monthly in America. She will be assume this role starting with the October issue of\u00a0Harper’s.<\/em><\/p>\n Contrary to the title, Nolan’s role will not involve editing for the magazine; rather, her role as contributing editor represents an ongoing writing relationship with Harper’s.<\/em>\u00a0When asked to comment on her new role, Nolan said, “the editors are wonderful, and I’m thrilled to be named a contributing editor in recognition of the ongoing relationship with the magazine.” Nolan has previously reported<\/a> for Harper’s<\/em> from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and El Salvador in the past, and has written for them about Peruvian and U.S. history.<\/p>\n In the latest edition of Harper’s<\/em>, Nolan wrote a long form review of The Deportation Machine: America\u2019s Long History of Expelling Immigrants<\/em> titled “Cage of Gold<\/a>.” In the review, Nolan explores the corrupt business of deportation, the different categories of deportation, as well as how the deportation techniques of today came into practice.<\/p>\n An excerpt:<\/p>\n Over the past hundred years, a stunning 90 percent of deportations from this country were ‘voluntary departures,’ as the historian Adam Goodman shows in his new book, <\/span>The Deportation Machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>It is as inaccurate to imagine an immigration hearing for most deportees, Goodman writes, as it is to imagine a jury trial for most criminal suspects.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The full book review can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rachel Nolan<\/a> is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research focuses on political violence, Central American civil wars, childhood and the family, historical memory, and U.S.-Latin American relations. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of international adoption from Guatemala. Read more about her here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prof. Nolan will serve in the role starting with the October edition of Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/i>, the oldest general-interest monthly in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":38944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11797],"tags":[11480,11730,11731,8578,11352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47087,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543\/revisions\/47087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}