On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Alice Goffman
Born	1982 (age 34–35)
Awards	ASA Dissertation Award (2011)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Mitchell Duneier
Academic work
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Main interests	Urban sociology, Ethnography, Inequality
Notable works	On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (2014)

Alice Goffman (born 1982) is an American sociologist, urban ethnographer, and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Goffman became known because of scholarly controversies concerning her book On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, an ethnographic account of the fieldwork for her PhD dissertation on the impact of mass incarceration and policing on low-income African-American urban communities.

Goffman attended the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD at Princeton University, both in sociology. Her doctoral dissertation committee was chaired by Mitchell Duneier and included Paul DiMaggio, Devah Pager, Cornel West, and Viviana Zelizer.

While earning her PhD at Princeton, Goffman co-taught undergraduate courses with Mitch Duneier as a Lloyd Cotsen Graduate Teaching Fellow. In 2010, she was awarded a two-year fellowship at the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar. Since the fall of 2012, Goffman has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At Madison, she established the Wisconsin Collective for Ethnographic Research with a colleague and serves on several committees. She currently serves as a reviewer and board member for several different sociological publications.

In 2014, Goffman published On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, an ethnographic account of her fieldwork on the impact of policing on the lives of young black men in West Philadelphia. Since the publication of On the Run, Goffman has delivered talks at dozens of colleges, universities and conferences. In March 2015 she gave a TED Talk titled "How we’re priming some kids for college – and others for prison."

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