Rebecca Goldstein
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Rebecca Goldstein is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Her research interests include the politics of criminal justice policy, racial and ethnic politics, and bureaucratic politics. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government and her B.A. in Statistics from Harvard College.
Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the American Sociological Review, The Journal of Law and Economics, Urban Affairs Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the American Criminal Law Review. She is currently working on a book project charting the causes and consequences of the rise of progressive prosecutors in the United States.