Sara Wallace Goodman

Sara Wallace Goodman is Chancellor’s Fellow and Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine. Her research explores citizenship, immigration policy, and democratic resilience, with recent work analyzing pandemic partisanship. Publications appear in APSR, World Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.

She investigates citizenship norms, integration policies, and how polarization shapes crisis responses like COVID-19. Her award-winning book Citizenship in Hard Times examines ordinary responses to democratic threats.

Goodman co-founded Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship and serves as APSA Treasurer. NSF and Russell Sage Foundation support her research.