Jacqueline Goodman, PhD, is Professor Emerita of the Sociology Department, State University of New York, Potsdam College, where she also served in several administrative and leadership positions until 2013. She received her BA and PhD in Anthropology from Barnard College and Columbia University. She retired from Eastern Michigan University in 2023 where she was Department Head and Professor of WGST, an interdisciplinary department.
Her teaching and research focused on the political economy of work, gender, and collective organizing in the U.S., at the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve, and in Morocco. She served as a Delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, and received several teaching, research, and travel awards including a National Science Foundation dissertation award, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar Fellowship Awards, a Clarke Visiting Professorship at Cornell Law School in the M. Fineman Feminist Legal Theory Project, and a Chancellor's Award for International Education in Morocco, State University of New York. She has delivered numerous presentations on her work landing her in several parts of the world, resulting in articles and two books.
Since retirement from Eastern Michigan University, Dr. Goodman completed training with VP Al Gore's Climate Reality Project (CRP) and continues to work with CRP and with Third Act on the dual goals of Climate and Democracy. She served as Co-Facilitator of Third Act Educators, and conducts "faculty development" sessions with members around the country on the politics and economics of the climate crisis and climate solutions. In this capacity she also delivers public presentations, and adult classes through the Osher Life-Long Learning Institute at University of Michigan.