Libby Garland

Professor Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in 2015.

Additional Publications

• “New Directions for American Jewish Migration Histories,” American Jewish History (forthcoming, Spring 2018)
• “Jewish ‘Bootlegged Aliens’ in the Era of U.S. Immigration Quotas,” AJS Perspectives (Fall 2017)
• “A Culture of Conversation: Faculty Talk as Meaningful Assessment of Learning Communities” (co-authored with Kevin Kolkmeyer); Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Spring 2011)
• “Fighting to Be Insiders: American Jewish Leaders and the Michigan Alien Registration Law of 1931,” American Jewish History 96, no. 2 (June 2010)
• Co-recipient, American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman Prize for best journal article in American Jewish History
• “‘I Have No Idea What You Do Out There’: Community Colleges, Academic Freedom and the University as Global Marketplace,” (co-authored with Eben Wood), AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom, Vol. 1 (2010)
• “Not-Quite-Closed Gates: Jewish Alien Smuggling in the Post-Quota Years,”
• American Jewish History 94, no. 3 (September 2008)
• Co-recipient, American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman Prize for best journal article in American Jewish History
•  “‘Irrespective of Race, Color or Sex:’ Susan B. Anthony and the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867,” Organization of American Historians’ Magazine of History (March 2005)