Jeff Goodwin

Goodwin was born in Hollywood, Florida, and grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. His parents were public school teachers in Broward County. He graduated from Nova High School in Davie, Florida, in 1976. Goodwin attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in social studies in 1980, and later obtained a Master of Arts (MA) and, in November 1988, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in sociology. His graduate-school cohort included Michael Macy, Ellen Immergut, and Calvin Morrill. Theda Skocpol chaired his dissertation committee.{{cite book |title=No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945–1991 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/no-other-way-out/79BCB575651FA9BB7DB8CF95ADC99B54 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2001|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511812125 |last1=Goodwin |first1=Jeff |isbn=978-0-521-62948-5 }}

Following his doctoral studies, Goodwin began his academic career as an assistant professor of political science and sociology at Northwestern University from 1989 to 1991. Goodwin then moved to New York University (NYU) in 1991, serving as an assistant professor of sociology until 1997. He progressed to the rank of associate professor of sociology until 2003, when he was promoted to full professor of sociology, a position he has held since. In 2009, Goodwin served as a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.{{cite web |title=Jeff Goodwin |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/G/J/au5537690.html |website=University of Chicago Press |language=en}}

Throughout his academic career, Goodwin has been actively involved in various academic organizations, holding elective offices such as executive board member positions in the International Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society as well as in the ASA.

Goodwin has been elected chair of four sections of the ASA, namely, the Comparative and Historical Sociology section, the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section, and the Section on Marxist Sociology.{{cite web |title=Section Award |url=https://www.asanet.org/communities-and-sections/sections/section-award-nomination-calls/ |website=American Sociological Association}}

Goodwin has written and edited a number of works with his friend and former NYU colleague James M. Jasper. They wrote a famous critique of the political-opportunity theory developed by Charles Tilly and Doug McAdam, republished in Rethinking Social Movements, which Goodwin and Jasper edited. They also edited The Contexts Reader (New York: W. W. Norton), Social Movements (Routledge), The Social Movements Reader (Wiley-Blackwell), and (with Francesca Polletta) Passionate Politics (University of Chicago Press), a leading work in the sociology of emotions. Goodwin has also written a series of papers on revolutions and terrorism, respectively.

Goodwin has long been a critic of U.S. support for governments and other actors engaged in gross human rights abuses, from apartheid South Africa to Central America to Israel.{{cite web |last1=Beinart |first1=Peter |title=There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/opinion/palestinian-ethical-resistance-answers-grief-and-rage.html |website=The New York Times |date=14 October 2023}} In October 2011, Goodwin was one of 132 New York University (NYU) faculty and staff members who signed a statement calling for disinvestment in several American companies that do business in Israel.{{cite web |title=2,000+ Academics Condemn Israel's Attacks on Gaza's Educational Infrastructure |url=https://m.thewire.in/article/world/2000-academics-condemn-israels-attacks-on-gazas-educational-infrastructure |website=The Wire (India) |language=en}} In response to sharp criticism from Congressman Gary Ackerman, Goodwin accused Ackerman of moral blindness and stated that "Ackerman's apparent denial that Israel is occupying Palestinian territories and systematically violating basic Palestinian rights is simply shocking."[http://wedivest.org/2011/10/rep-ackerman-attacks-over-100-nyu-professors-for-signing-divestment-letter/ Rep. Ackerman attacks over 100 NYU professors for signing divestment letter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410142926/http://wedivest.org/2011/10/rep-ackerman-attacks-over-100-nyu-professors-for-signing-divestment-letter/ |date=2016-04-10 }}, Posted on Wedivest.org, October 21, 2011. Goodwin is a long-time member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).{{cite web |last1=Weinberg |first1=Justin |title=NYU Philosophy Graduate Students Call for Divestment |url=https://dailynous.com/2024/05/07/nyu-philosophy-graduate-students-call-for-divestment/ |website=Daily Nous |date=7 May 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Beinart |first1=Peter |title=There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/opinion/palestinian-ethical-resistance-answers-grief-and-rage.html |website=Nytimes}}

• Mattei Dogan Award, honorable mention (for best book published in the field of comparative research), Society for Comparative Research, 2003, for No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001){{cite web |title=Social Movements in Times of Austerity - Polity Books |url=http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745688589 |website=www.politybooks.com}}
• Outstanding Book Prize, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association in 2002, for No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001){{cite web |title=Jeff Goodwin |url=https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/jeff-goodwin.html#:~:text=Outstanding%20Book%20Prize%2C%20Collective%20Behavior,of%20comparative%20research)%2C%20Society%20for |website=as.nyu.edu}}
• Barrington Moore Prize for the best article in the field of comparative-historical sociology.{{cite web |title=Comparative and Historical Sociology Award Recipient History |url=https://www.asanet.org/communities-and-sections/sections/current-sections/comparative-and-historical-sociology-award-recipient-history/ |website=Asanet}}

• {{Cite book |title=Strategies for social change |date=2012 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-7289-9 |editor-last=Maney |editor-first=Gregory M. |series=Social movements, protest, and contention |location=Minneapolis, MN |oclc=759695877 |ref=none |editor-last2=Kutz-Flamenbaum |editor-first2=Rachel V. |editor-last3=Rohlinger |editor-first3=Deana A. |editor-last4=Goodwin |editor-first4=Jeff |editor-mask4=2}}
• {{Cite book |title=Contention in context: political opportunities and the emergence of protest |date=2012 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-7611-0 |editor-last=Goodwin |editor-first=Jeff |editor-mask=2 |location=Stanford, CA |ref=none |editor-last2=Jasper |editor-first2=James M.}}
• {{Cite book |title=The contexts reader |date=2008 |publisher=W.W. Norton |isbn=978-0-393-92989-8 |editor-last=Goodwin |editor-first=Jeff |editor-mask=2 |edition=1st |location=New York |oclc=122526374 |ref=none |editor-last2=Jasper |editor-first2=James M.}}
• {{Cite book |title=Rethinking social movements: structure, meaning, and emotion |date=2004 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-0-7425-2595-5 |editor-last=Goodwin |editor-first=Jeff |editor-mask=2 |series=People, passions, and power |location=Lanham, MD |ref=none |editor-last2=Jasper |editor-first2=James M.}}
• {{Cite book |title=The social movements reader: cases and concepts |date=2003 |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=978-0-631-22195-1 |editor-last=Goodwin |editor-first=Jeff |editor-mask=2 |series=Blackwell readers in sociology |location=Malden, MA |ref=none |editor-last2=Jasper |editor-first2=James M.}}
• {{Cite book |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |title=No other way out: states and revolutionary movements, 1945 - 1991 |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-521-62069-7 |edition=Reprinted |series=Cambridge studies in comparative politics |location=Cambridge |ref=none |author-mask=2 |orig-year=2001}}
• {{Cite book |title=Passionate politics: emotions and social movements |date=2001 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-30398-7 |editor-last=Goodwin |editor-first=Jeff |editor-mask=2 |location=Chicago |ref=none |editor-last2=Jasper |editor-first2=James M. |editor-last3=Polletta |editor-first3=Francesca}}

• {{Cite journal |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |author-mask=2 |year=2022 |title=Black Reconstruction as Class War |url=https://catalyst-journal.com/2022/06/black-reconstruction-as-class-war |journal=Catalyst |volume=6 |issue=1 |ref=none}}
• {{Cite book |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |title=The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism |date=14 March 2019 |isbn=978-0-19-873291-4 |editor-last=Chenoweth |editor-first=Erica |pages=252–267 |chapter=The Causes of Terrorism |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732914.013.14 |ref=none |author-mask=2 |editor-last2=English |editor-first2=Richard |editor-last3=Gofas |editor-first3=Andreas |editor-last4=Kalyvas |editor-first4=Stathis N.}}
• {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Revolutions |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of violence, peace, & conflict |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |date=2008 |pages=1870–1880 |editor-last=Kurtz |editor-first=Lester R. |doi=10.1016/B978-012373985-8.00156-2 |isbn=978-012373985-8 |ref=none |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |author-mask=2 |year=2007 |title='The Struggle Made Me a Non-Racialist': Why There Was So Little Terrorism in the Antiapartheid Struggle |journal=Mobilization |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=193–203 |doi=10.17813/maiq.12.2.c27p720k825u3636 |ref=none}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |author-mask=2 |year=2006 |title=A Theory of Categorical Terrorism |journal=Social Forces |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=2027–2046 |doi=10.1353/sof.2006.0090 |ref=none}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |author-mask=2 |date=2006 |title=How Not to Explain Terrorism |journal=European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=477–482 |doi=10.1017/S0003975606000269 |issn=0003-9756 |ref=none}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |author-mask=2 |date=2006 |title=What Do We Really Know about (Suicide) Terrorism? |journal=Sociological Forum |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=315–330 |doi=10.1007/s11206-006-9017-3 |issn=0884-8971 |ref=none}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Goodwin |first=Jeff |author-mask=2 |date=October 2004 |title=Review essay: What must we explain to explain terrorism? |journal=Social Movement Studies |language=en |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=259–265 |doi=10.1080/1474283042000266155 |issn=1474-2837 |ref=none}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Emirbayer |first1=Mustafa |last2=Goodwin |first2=Jeff |title=Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency |journal=American Journal of Sociology |date=1994 |volume=99 |issue=6 |pages=1411–1454 |issn=0002-9602}}*
• {{Cite journal |last1=Goodwin |first1=Jeff |last2=Skocpol |first2=Theda |author-mask=2 |date=December 1989 |title=Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World |journal=Politics & Society |language=en |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=489–509 |doi=10.1177/003232928901700403 |issn=0032-3292 |ref=none}}

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• [http://www.jeffgoodwin.net/ Personal homepage]
• [http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/jeffgoodwin.html Homepage at NYU]

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