Sarah Igo

  By Sarah Igo, Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University    Since the first Social Security numbers were issued in 1936, Americans’ relationship to their unique nine digits has charted shifting attitudes toward the federal government. The federal government has long relied on aggregate as well as individual data… Read More

  A group of Vanderbilt scholars with legal, historical and political expertise on immigration came together Oct. 19 to discuss the crisis around Haitian migrants at the southern U.S. border and the recent influx of Afghan refugees to the United States. “Migration is a fundamental evolutionary strategy for the last… Read More