Stacie E. Goddard is an American political scientist and the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, where she serves as director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. She previously taught at Wellesley College, where she served as the Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science and associate provost for Wellesley in the World. Goddard is known for her research on international order, grand strategy, and global power politics. She 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.
Biography Goddard earned a B.A. in Political Science from University of Chicago in 1996 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003. Her Ph.D. thesis was "Uncommon ground: the making of indivisible issues".
She joined Wellesley College as an assistant professor in 2005 and later became the Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science and associate provost for Wellesley in the World. She was awarded Wellesley College's highest teaching award, the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize, in 2011.
In 2026, Goddard joined Columbia University as the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies and director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
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.Stacie E. Goddard. Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland. Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. 18–20
Her most recent book, When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order challenges conventional international relations realist theories and argues that "great powers divine the intentions of their adversaries through rising powers’ legitimation strategies."
She has published essays and op-eds in various media outlets on topics related to U.S. foreign policy, including Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post. Her articles have widely appeared in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, International Theory, and Security Studies.
Goddard has held fellowships at the Security Studies Program at MIT, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In 2019, she was a visiting fellow at LMU Munich.
Personal life Goddard is married to political scientist Paul MacDonald.
Publications
When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order. Cornell University Press, 2018 Rhetoric and Grand Strategy. Edited with Ronald R. Krebs. special issue of Security Studies. 24 (1) (Spring 2015). Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010
References
External links Columbia SIPA faculty profile "What'd You Miss?," interview with Stacie Goddard on Bloomberg News. October 13, 2019. "The Return of Great Power Competition," panel discussion at CATO Institute. January 15, 2019 "Challenges To Democracy," panel discussion with Madeleine Korbel Albright, Samantha Power, and Cass Sunstein at the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs.