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Haley Schroer

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of History
  • History

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EDUCATION

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, August 2023
M.A., University of Texas at Austin, May 2018
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Texas Christian University, May 2016

BIOGRAPHY

Haley Schroer received her PhD in Latin American History from the University of Texas at Austin in August 2023. Her dissertation, “Sartorial Subversions: Appearance, Identity, and Sumptuary Legislation in the Spanish Empire,” focuses on the intersection of race and material culture throughout the Spanish Empire. "Sartorial Subversions" won the 2024 Lathrop Prize for Best Dissertation in History. Her research has received support from the American Historical Association, P.E.O. International, the Institute for Historical Studies, the Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, and The Conference on Latin American History’s James R. Scobie Award. Schroer received a B.A. in History and Spanish, Summa Cum Laude, from Texas Christian University in 2016. She earned her M.A. from UT-Austin in May 2018, where her master’s report, “‘Scandalizing the Public’: Clothing and Perception in Mexico City’s Seventeenth-Century Inquisitorial Sumptuary Trials” won the 2019 Perry Prize for Best Master’s Thesis/Report.

RESEARCH & FACULTY STUDENT COLLABORATION

HIST 387 Introduction to Public History, Fall 2024, Museum Exhibit with the Seguin Guadalupe County Heritage Museum

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Colonial Latin America, Material Culture

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History
American Historical Association, 2024

Academic Research Grant
Faculty Evaluation and Compensation Committee
Texas Lutheran University, 2024

Pedagogy Application Grant
Center for Teaching and Learning
Texas Lutheran University, 2024

Lathrop Prize for Best Dissertation in History
Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming “From Sumptuary Laws to Glam Squads: Clothing and Identity in the Spanish Empire and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
Scholars Do Bravo Too: Tracing Histories of Gendered Identities, Race, and Consumption from the Roman Empire to the Present through The Real Housewives, edited by Kasey Calahane, Jessica Millward, and Max Speare, University of North Carolina Press, Spring 2025

‘They Have Always Worn Spanish Clothes’: Indigenous Elites and Sumptuary Legislation in Seventeenth-Century New Spain”
Colonial Latin American Review Volume 32, No. 4, January 2024

“‘Perpetradores de ‘tan graves delitos.’ Los herejes penitentes, la ropa, y la percepción en la Inquisición de México (1604-1617)”

Sociedades multiculturales en Iberoamérica y el Mediterráneo (siglos XVI-XXI), edited by Juan Jesús Bravo Caro and Pilar Ybáñez Worboys SILEX Press, Madrid, Spain, 2024

“What Can Historical Clothing Reveal That Other Sources Cannot?”

History Today, August 2023

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

“'Such Infernal Clothes’: Sumptuary Laws and Status in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Castile”
Renaissance Society of America, Boston, MA, April 2025

“From Sumptuary Laws to Glam Squads: Clothing and Identity in the Spanish Empire and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
OAH Conference on American History, Chicago, IL, March 2025

“‘They Have Always Worn Spanish Clothes’: Indigenous Elites and Sumptuary Legislation in Seventeenth-Century New Spain”
American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2022

WEBSITE

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