About Me
Sara Wallace Goodman is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her research examines citizenship and the shaping of political identity and national belonging through state policy. She is the author of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat (Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-author of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID (Princeton University Press, 2022), and author of Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Her work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, and other journals.
Goodman’s research has been cited in major news outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, BBC, NPR, and The Guardian. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Hellman Fellows Fund. Her work has also been recognized with several awards from the European Politics & Society and Migration & Citizenship sections of the American Political Science Association (APSA).
Dr. Goodman also contributes extensive service to the discipline, and currently serves as Treasurer of the APSA and Chair-Elect of APSA’s European Politics & Society Section. She is also co-founder and co-editor of the Oxford University Press book series, Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship.
She is a research affiliate at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (ICGG).
Contact Information
Department of Political Science
University of California, Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza B
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
email: swgood@uci.edu
twitter: @thatsaragoodman