Ph.D. 1988 (Sociology), Grand.A. 1983 (Sociology), B.A. 1980 (Social Studies), Harvard University.

Social Movements and Revolutions; Political Violence and Terrorism; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Social Theory.

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American Sociological Association, Order for the Study of Social Problems, American Political Science Association, Social Scientific discipline History Association, Board of Advisors: Creation: Centre for Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence.

Elected chair of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the ASA, 2011-2012, and of the Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the ASA, 2004-2005.

Golden Dozen Outstanding Teaching Award (2010), New York University, for undergraduate teaching; voted Professor of the Year by the NYU Department of Folklore's Graduate Student Clan (GSA), 2009-10, 2005-2006, 1997-1998.

Outstanding Book Prize, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Clan, 2002, for No Other Fashion Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001); Mattei Dogan Honor, honorable mention (for best book published in the field of comparative research), Society for Comparative Enquiry, 2003, for No Other Fashion Out (2001); Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, honorable mention, Eastern Sociological Guild, 2002, for No Other Way Out (2001).

Barrington Moore Prize for the best commodity in the field of comparative-historical sociology from the Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Clan, 1999, for "The Libidinal Constitution of a High-Risk Social Motility: Affectual Ties and Solidarity in the Huk Rebellion, 1946 to 1954," American Sociological Review (1997).

Best scholarly article award, honorable mention, Collective Behavior and Social Movement department of the American Sociological Association, 2007, for "A Theory of Categorical Terrorism," Social Forces (2006).

Best article award in the field of cultural folklore from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, 1995, for Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin, "Network Analysis, Civilization, and the Problem of Agency." American Journal of Sociology (1994).

Books:

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Jeff Goodwin and James Thou. Jasper, editors (2015), The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, tertiary edition (Wiley Blackwell).

 
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Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2012), Contention in Context: Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest (Stanford University Printing).

 
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Gregory M. Maney, Rachel Five. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana Rohlinger, and Jeff Goodwin, Editors (2012), Strategies for Social Alter (University of Minnesota Press).

 
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Jeff Goodwin and James Thou. Jasper, editors (2004), Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Culture, and Emotion (Rowman & Littlefield).

 
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Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta, editors (2001), Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (Academy of Chicago Press). (Translated into Korean past Hanul Publishing Group [2012].)

 
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Jeff Goodwin (2001), No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge Academy Press).

Selected Articles:

Gabriel Hetland and Jeff Goodwin (2013), "The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social Movement Studies." In Marxism and Social Movements, edited by Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky, and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (Brill), pp. 83-102.
Jeff Goodwin (2013), "Social Movements and Revolutions." In Jeff Manza et al., The Sociology Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination (Pearson), pp. 474-505.
Jeff Goodwin (2012), "Terrorism." In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited past Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, and Alan Scott (Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 190-203.
Jeff Goodwin (2012), "Are Protestors Opportunists? Fifty Tests." In Contention in Context: Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper (Stanford University Printing), pp. 277-300.
Jeff Goodwin (2011), "Why We Were Surprised (Once again) by the Arab Bound," Swiss Political Scientific discipline Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 452-56.
Jeff Goodwin (2009), "The Relational Approach to Terrorism," Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. xv, No. ii, pp. 387-94.
Jeff Goodwin (2008), "Which Side Are Nosotros On? NYU's Full-Time Faculty and the GSOC Strike." In The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace, edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross (Temple University Press), pp. 162-73.
Jeff Goodwin (2007), "'The Struggle Made Me a Non-Racialist': Why There Was And then Trivial Terrorism in the Antiapartheid Struggle," Mobilization, Vol. 12, No. two, pp. 193-203.
Jeff Goodwin (2006), "How Not to Explicate Terrorism" (a review essay on Louise Richardson, What Terrorists Want: Agreement the Enemy, Containing the Threat [Random Firm, 2006]), European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 477-82.
Jeff Goodwin (2006), "What Exercise We Really Know About (Suicide) Terrorism?" Sociological Forum, Vol. 21, No. ii, pp. 315-30.
Jeff Goodwin (2006), "A Theory of Chiselled Terrorism," Social Forces, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp.2027-2046. A revised version of this article was as well published as "Devrimci Terörizmi Anlamak," in Tarihsel Sosyoloji: Stratejiler, Sorunsallar, Paradmigmalar , edited by Ferdan Ergut and Ayşen Uysal (Ankara: Dipnot Yayinlari, 2007), pp. 251-293.
Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper (2006), "Emotions and Social Movements."  In Handbook of the Folklore of Emotions, edited by January East. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner (Springer), pp. 611-35.
Jeff Goodwin (2005), "Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements."  In The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, and Mildred A. Schwartz (Cambridge Academy Press), pp. 404-22.
Jeff Goodwin (2004), "What Must We Explain to Explain Terrorism?" A review essay on Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill (Ecco, 2003), Social Movements Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 259-62.
Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta (2003), "Emotional Dimensions of Social Movements."  In The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David A. Snow, Sarah Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi (Blackwell), pp. 413-32.
Jeff Goodwin and Ruth Horowitz (2002), "The Methodological Strengths and Dilemmas of Qualitative Folklore," Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 33-47.
Jeff Goodwin and Steven Pfaff (2001), "Emotion Piece of work in Loftier-Risk Social Movements: Managing Fearfulness in the U.South. and Due east German Civil Rights Movements."  In Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (University of Chicago Printing), pp. 282-302.
Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta (2000), "The Render of the Repressed: The Fall and Rise of Emotions in Social Motility Theory," Mobilization, Vol. v, No. 1, pp. 65-84.
Jeff Goodwin and James Yard. Jasper (1999), "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" (with responses from Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow, David Southward. Meyer, Francesca Polletta, and Ruud Koopmans.), Sociological Forum, Vol. 14, No. one, pp. 27-54.
Jeff Goodwin (1997), "The Libidinal Constitution of a Loftier-Risk Social Movement: Affectual Ties and Solidarity in the Huk Rebellion, 1946 to 1954," American Sociological Review, Vol. 62, No. i, pp. 53-69.
Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin (1996), "Symbols, Positions, Objects: Toward a New Theory of Revolutions and Commonage Action," History and Theory, Vol. 35, pp. 358-374.
Jeff Goodwin (1996), "How to Go a Dominant American Social Scientist: The Case of  Theda Skocpol" (a review essay on Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions [Cambridge: Cambridge University Printing, 1979]), Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 25, No. three, pp. 293-295. An expanded version of this essay was published in Required Reading: Folklore's Most Influential Books, edited by Dan Clawson [University of Massachusetts Printing, 1998].)
Jeff Goodwin (1994), "Old Regimes and Revolutions in the Second and 3rd Worlds: A Comparative Perspective." Social Science History, Vol. 18, No. iv, pp. 575-604.
Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin (1994), "Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Bureau," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 99, No. 6, pp. 1411-1454.
Jeff Goodwin (1994), "What'due south Right (and Wrong) About Left Media Criticism?  Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model" (a review essay on the piece of work of Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky), Sociological Forum, Vol. ix, No. 1, pp. 101-111.
Herman and John Foran and Jeff Goodwin (1993), "Revolutionary Outcomes in Iran and Nicaragua: Coalition Fragmentation, War, and the Limits of Social Transformation." Theory and Society, Vol. 22, pp. 209-247.
Jeff Goodwin and Theda Skocpol (1989), "Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third Earth." Politics and Society, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 489-509.