Stacie E. Goddard is an American political scientist. She is the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.[1] Goddard is known for her research on international order, grand strategy, and global power politics.[2] Goddard formerly served as the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs and is a non-resident fellow of the Quincy Institute.[3][4]
Biography
Goddard earned a B.A. in Political Science from University of Chicago in 1996 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003.[1] Her Ph.D. thesis was "Uncommon ground : the making of indivisible issues" [5]
She joined Wellesley College as an assistant professor in 2005 and became the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science in 2020.[1] She was awarded Wellesley College's highest teaching award, the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize, in 2011.[6]
Academic work
Her first book, Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland, argues that the legitimacy of Israeli historical narratives is used as a tool to secure territory.[7]
Her most recent book, When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order challenges conventional international relationsrealist theories and argues that "great powers divine the intentions of their adversaries through rising powers’ legitimation strategies."[8]