"Crisis," Uncertainty, and Immigration Restriction in the 1990s
"Crisis," Uncertainty, and Immigration Restriction in the 1990s
Carly Goodman is a historian, editor, and author of Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University-Camden, where she teaches undergraduate and Master’s courses in U.S. history since 1945 and public history. Her next book examines the history of the immigration restriction movement since 1965.
Goodman also serves as a Senior Editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Made by History, where she edits commentary and analysis by historians. She has consulted on public history projects, including the National Immigration Museum at Ellis Island.
Prior to joining Rutgers-Camden, Goodman was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at La Salle University and served as the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow and Communications Analyst at the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. She previously worked as Communications Coordinator at the Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia and at Human Rights First in New York. Earlier in her career, she held positions in the music and video industries as well as at several bakeries in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas.
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