Cody Nager is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab and teaches courses to undergraduate and graduate students. His scholarship and teaching focus on how interactions between Americans and the broader Atlantic world shaped domestic debates over legal structures, political rights, economic development and national identity from colonial times to the present. He received his doctorate in history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and his BA from Columbia University. Prior to Stanford, he was a dissertation fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies. In addition to Stanford, he has taught at the City College of New York, Texas Tech University, University of Pennsylvania, 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.
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