About

Chad Alan Goldberg is a tenured professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Department of History, Department of Political Science, George L. Mosse Program in History, George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Starting in the 2025–2026 academic year, he also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he spends every second semester.

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.