About

Project Organizers and Consultants

The 2026 revision of this project was lead by Llana Barber, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair of Immigration History and the director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

This revised and updated #ImmigrationSyllabus was created by: Llana Barber, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History and Director of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; Carly Goodman, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden; Hidetaka Hirota, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley; Cecilia Márquez, Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History, Duke University; A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Director of Latina/o Studies and Professor of History, Penn State University; Evan Taparata, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs; Michele Waslin, Assistant Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; Kimberly G. White, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania; Shinya Yoshida, Graduate Assistant, Immigration History Research Center, and PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota.

Consultants included: Maddalena Marinari, Professor of History and the Dorothy Peterson, Mildred Peterson Hanson, and Arthur Jennings Hanson Endowed Professor of Liberal Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College; Yael Schacher, Director for Americas and Europe, Refugees International

Original 2017 Version

The original project was led by Erika Lee, past Director of the Immigration History Research Center and currently Bae Family Professor of History, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

Organizers of the original #ImmigrationSyllabus included: Erika Lee, María Cristina García, Adam Goodman, Madeline Hsu, Julian Lim, Maddalena Marinari, and Evan Taparata.

Consultants for the original #ImmigrationSyllabus included: Katherine Benton-Cohen, Charlotte Brooks, John J. Bukowczyk, Donna Gabaccia, Libby Garland, David Gerber, Torrie Hester, Ely M. Janis, Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Kevin Kenny, Alan Kraut, Grainne McEvoy, Lucy Salyer, Jordan Stanger-Ross, and Elliott Young.

Contributors includ: María Cristina García, Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University and President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS); Adam Goodman, Assistant Professor of History & Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago; Madeline Hsu, Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin; Julian Lim, Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University; Maddalena Marinari, Assistant Professor of History, Gustavus Adolphus College; and Evan Taparata, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota.

Publishing Support

The project is published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Services: Kate Sheridan, Publishing Librarian; Ander Kierig, Publishing Web Developer; John Barneson, Publishing Web Developer; and Shane Nackerud, Director of Affordable Learning and Open Education.

2017 Website

The 2017 version of the site can be viewed at this link via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and the 2017 PDF version is also avaliable here.

Suggested Citation Style

#ImmigrationSyllabus. Llana Barber, Carly Goodman, Hidetaka Hirota, et al. August 26, 2026. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. https://immigrationsyllabus.lib.umn.edu/.

You can also add the syllabus to your citation manager (Zotero, EndNote, etc.).

Image Credits

• Main Page: Jonathan McIntosh - Own work, CC BY 2.5, (2006) via Wikimedia Commons
• Weeks 1-2: “Americans all Immigrants all,” United States Department of the Interior, Public Domain (1939). University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center Archives
• Weeks 3-6: “Ellis Island Public Health Service Physicians,” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
• Weeks 7-8: “A displaced family,” United Ukrainian American Relief Committee (1949-1950). University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center Archives
• Weeks 9-11: “President Lyndon B. Johnson Signing of the Immigration Act of 1965,” Public Domain (1965) via Wikimedia Commons
• Weeks 12-15: Jonathan McIntosh - Own work, CC BY 2.5, (2006) via Wikimedia Commons

License

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