Jack A. Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public Policy at
George Mason University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center, a Global Fellow at
the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Director of Schar’s Center for the Study of Social Change,
Institutions and Policy (SCIP). Previously, he served on the faculty of Northwestern University
and the University of California, and has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University,
Stanford University, and the California Institute of Technology. He has received the
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship award from the American Sociological Association,
the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr. Award, the Myron Weiner Award, and
fellowships from the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Institute
of Peace and the Mellon Foundation. Recognized as a leading authority on revolutions and social
change, Goldstone has contributed to significant global projects and advised U.S. government
agencies on democracy and stability in developing nations. His influential work includes the
widely-read essay “The New Population Bomb” and his latest book, “Revolutions: A Very Short
Introduction.
