In view of her important contribution to the ongoing work of GLOBALCIT, we recognise Sara Wallace Goodman as Senior Research Associate.

Sara Wallace Goodman is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, where she currently serves as Chair of the Department of Political Science. Her research examines citizenship and the shaping of political identity and national belonging through state policy. 

Sara is a longstanding contributor to GLOBALCIT and its predecessor, EUDO CITIZENSHIP, for which she authored a comparative report on naturalisation policies in Europe (2010), among others. She is also a strong advocate for the use of GLOBALCIT data in academic research, as in her 2023 Annual Review of Political Science paper, where she showcases the data from the GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset.

In 2024, Sara was awarded a Continuing Grant from the National Science Foundation for the project Citizenship, Democracy, and Political Inclusion. The project, developed in cooperation with GLOBALCIT, examines why some states make national citizenship accessible and others do not, and whether democratic pressure pushes states towards inclusion. The project will conduct statistical analysis with original data, obtained by building an expanded GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset, which describes laws for gaining and losing citizenship, across 191 countries and between the years 1960 and 2024. For this project, Sara and the GLOBALCIT team will mobilise our global network of experts and produce analyses based on the expanded dataset. The research will make significant contributions to scholarly literature on citizenship and migration, public policymaking, welfare, immigration politics, and democratization.

We sincerely thank Sara for her highly valued contributions and hope to continue our fruitful collaboration for many years!