#  Alice Baumgartner 

 

 



 person 





 

Alice Baumgartner received her PhD in history from Yale University in 2018. Her book project, *Abolition from the South: Mexico and the Road to the U.S. Civil War, 1800-1867*, uses the story of American slaves who escaped to Mexico during the nineteenth century as a lens for understanding Mexico’s rise as an anti-slavery republic and its overlooked significance to the United States. Baumgartner received a BA in History from Yale University and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her March 2015 article in the *Journal of American History*, “‘The Line of Positive Safety’: Borders and Boundaries in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1848-1880,” won the Louis Pelzer Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Bolton-Cutter Prize from the Western History Association.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2018 - 2019](/fellowship-year/2018-2019)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)