I am a historian, editor, and the author of Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction (University of North Carolina Press, May 2023). My next book is on the history of the immigration restriction movement since 1965.

I am an assistant professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University-Camden. I teach undergraduate and Master’s courses in U.S. history since 1945 and public history.

I also serve as a Senior Editor at Made by History at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where I edit daily commentary and analysis by historians. (Pitch us at madebyhistory@inquirer.com.) We previously published in partnership with TIME Magazine (2023-2025) and the Washington Post (2017-2023).

I have consulted on public history projects, including the National Immigration Museum at Ellis Island. From 2019-2021, I was a visiting assistant professor of history at La Salle University. Prior to teaching at La Salle, I was the Mellon/American Council of Learned Society Public Fellow and Communications Analyst at American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. I also worked as Communications Coordinator at Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia. Before my Ph.D. I worked at Human Rights First in New York. As a younger and cooler person I worked at two different Kim’s Videos in the music department and Hungarian Pastry Shop in New York City, at Video Americain in Takoma Park, Md., and at Stella’s Bakery in Rockville, Md.

Contact me at carly goodman at gmail. I am on bluesky @carlygoodman.bsky.social.