Dr. Hayley Froysland
Hayley Froysland, Ph.D. (University of Virginia, 2002)
Chair of the History Department
Associate Professor of History
Wiekamp Hall, Room DW3257
(574) 520-4266
hfroysla@iusb.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of History
Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Avenue
PO Box 7111
South Bend, IN 46634-7111
Hayley Froysland is Associate Professor of History and the Director of the General Studies Program at IU South Bend (2016-present). After receiving her BA from Hope College and MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida, she completed her PhD in History at the University of Virginia in 2002. Her publications include, "La regeneración de la raza: Nation-Building and the Shaping of National Character in Colombia, 1884-1930,” in Don Doyle and Marco Pamplona, eds., Nationalism in the Americas (2003) and “Trabajo, Ahorro, Familia, y Caridad: Poverty and the Catholic Moral Imperative in the Era of ‘Order and Progress’ in Regeneration Colombia, 1878-1900,” The Latin Americanist (2009). She has a chapter in a forthcoming book and is currently working on a book manuscript which examines elite discourse on race and nation and the attempt to “regenerate” the poor in Colombia through the improvement of public health and the establishment of charitable institutions. Dr. Froysland has also presented papers at numerous national and international conferences and has received several research grants from institutions such as the Fulbright Foundation, the American Historical Association, the University of Virginia, the University of Florida, and Indiana University.
Dr. Froysland’s courses include “Colonial Latin American History,” “Modern Latin American History,” “History of Latinos in the United States,” “The World in the Twentieth Century,” “The Health of Nations: Disease, the Body, and the Body Politic in Modern Latin American History,” “Race, Class, and Nation in Modern Latin America,” as well as seminars on “Revolutions in Latin America,” and “U.S.-Latin American Relations.” She has been a recipient of a Trustees’ Teaching Award from Indiana University in 2010, 2013, 2016, 2020, and 2024. She also received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2008 and 2021 and served as the Director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Center for Advising from 2009-2011. She was also the recipient of a Top 25 Titans Award at IU South Bend in 2024.