Carly Goodman, Carly Goodman, History Professor, Recently Won Two Major Awards for Her Book on the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery and Broader Immigration Issues
January 6, 2025
Rutgers University–Camden Assistant Professor of History Carly Goodman appears to have written the right book at the right time. Her double award-winning Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction, published by the University of North Carolina Press, brings to life the history of the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery and tells the wider story of the nation’s immigration history and policy.
Goodman sets the diversity lottery as the foreground to her exploration of the complex macrocosm of border walls and other obstacles to migration in today’s America—where anti-immigrant policies and systemic anti-Black racism persist.