About the Author

Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson is a public historian in the New York City area. She holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929 (University Press of Florida, 2009) and has published several encyclopedia essays about immigration. She has done historical research for such institutions as the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Museum of the City of New York and has taught history at Empire State College (SUNY).