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Katherine Carper is a historian of nineteenth-century United States immigration. Her current book project, The Migration Business: Private Interests and Immigration Policy in the Nineteenth-Century United States, explores the intersection of business and immigration policy. The manuscript traces the growth of migration-related business and institutions in the nineteenth century, arguing that this “migration business” influenced immigration policy at the local, state, and federal levels.

Katie’s research has been supported by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, Organization of American Historians, and American Historical Association. She has published articles and co-edited a special issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era, and contributed to Not From Here, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s online blog. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

Katie received her PhD in history from Boston College in 2020 for the dissertation, "The Migration Business, 1824-1876," which received the Donald and Hélène White Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the Field of Social Sciences. She earned her BA in history from The George Washington University (2012).