Alan Goodman

Hampshire College

Alan Goodman, professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College, previously served as Dean of the School of Natural Sciences, Dean of Faculty and Vice President of Academic. Goodman was the President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). He continues to co-direct the AAA’s ambitious public education project on race, human variation and racism (understandingrace.org). The second editions of Race: Are We So Different? (Goodman, Moses and Jones) was published in 2019. He also helped write the AAA’s statement on race and the 1995 UNESCO sponsored Schlaining, Austria statement on race. Goodman’s latest book is Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (with Joseph Graves, 2022, Columbia U Press). His work for the last three decades increasingly focuses on the use of race in forensic anthropology and medicine. He is keenly interested in the misuses of race as a substitute for human variation in science and public arenas.

Areas of Expertise

• Anthropology
• Health and Medicine
• Human Genetics and Variation

Methodology

• Ethnographic Methods
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods