Society of Fellows alumna Rachel Nolan’s (2018–2019) first book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, tells the story of an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. The Pulitzer Prize Foundation named the work a 2025 Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction, calling Until I Find You a “focused, extensively reported study.”

Nolan has also been awarded a 2025-2026 New Directions Fellowship by the Mellon Foundation to study K'iche'/Indigenous studies and immigration law in Guatemala in support of her second book project. The goal of New Directions is to support the evolution and expansion of humanities disciplines by investing in the intellectual range and productivity of exceptional faculty.

Most recently, Nolan profiled Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in The Guardian in June 2026.

Rachel Nolan is currently an Assistant Professor at Boston University.