Overview
Haley Schroer is an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latine History at Wichita State University. She earned her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023, where she specialized in the intersection of race and material culture in colonial Latin America. Her book project, Sartorial Subversions: Appearance, Identity, and Sumptuary Legislation in the Spanish Empire, explores the tensions between sumptuary laws – statutes that barred select groups from wearing certain garments or using socially charged items – and the ways in which marginalized populations crafted their own socio-racial identities. Her research has received support from numerous organizations such as the American Historical Association, P.E.O. International, the Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, and the Conference on Latin American History. She has published both domestically and internationally in the Colonial Latin American Review, History Today, the Spanish academic press, SILEX, and the University of North Carolina Press. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Schroer has experience working in private collections, with a focus in Texana, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and American rare books and manuscripts. Her teaching interests include Latin American history, material culture, and the interconnected histories of the Americas.
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2023
M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 2018
B.A., Texas Christian University, 2016