Cody Nager

About

Cody Nager is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and is affiliated with its History Lab. His scholarship focuses on how interactions between the diverse people of America and the broader Atlantic region have shaped structures of racial inequality, economic development, political rights, and national identity in the United States. He received his doctorate in history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and his BA from Columbia University. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a dissertation fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies and taught at the City College of New York and the CUNY School of Law. His manuscript Determined to Be American: Regulating Migration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815 investigates how the new nation’s precarious international and domestic position shaped the politics of migration, divided Americans into parties, escalated the conflicts around visions for the nation’s future, and formed battle lines that shape clashes over migration policy to this day.