About

Chad Alan Goldberg is Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Department of History, Department of Political Science, George L. Mosse Program in History, and George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, whose faculty he joined in 2001. He began a joint appointment in the 2025–2026 academic year, spending the first semester each year at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the second semester in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Goldberg was educated at New College of Florida, where he received a BA in philosophy and sociology, and the New School for Social Research, where he earned his doctorate with a dissertation on the contested rights of relief workers and workfare workers in the United States. He specializes in political and comparative-historical sociology as well as social theory.

Goldberg has held visiting appointments or fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and multiple institutes for advanced study in Germany.