Join the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello for a virtual Fellow's Forum with Cody Nager, PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 

From Different Quarters argues that the newly independent nation’s precarious international position inspired fierce debates over the regulation of migration and contributed to the development of domestic partisan politics. Migration regulation proved inextricably bound with arguments over the relationship between the movement of free and enslaved people, the engagement between the United States and the rest of the world, and the proper course of the nation’s economic development. As a wedge issue, migration separated residents of the early Republic into political factions who envisioned different paths for the new nation’s future. 

About the Speaker

Cody Nager is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He serves as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at City College of New York and a Writing Fellow at the CUNY School of Law. Cody’s dissertation titled “From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783-1815,” examines the formation and legacy of the United States’ first regulations on migration. An article based on the first chapter of his dissertation titled “How Atlantic Mobility Shaped American Naturalization in the Confederation Period” was recently published in the Journal of American Ethnic History.