NYU Wagner Welcomes Malcolm Araos and Rebecca Goldstein to Faculty

The NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service has added two full-time faculty members beginning for the 2025–26 academic year, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Service Malcolm Araos and Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Rebecca Goldstein. 

Araos, who is also affiliated faculty in NYU’s Department of Environmental Studies, focuses his research on climate adaptation policy and politics, exploring how governments respond to and plan for climate change and how communities, in turn, respond to these projects. His work includes a case study of New York’s coastline adaptation plans following Superstorm Sandy, an interview study on how Utah is planning to save the Great Salt Lake, and collaborative assessments on global climate action across sectors. 

He has a B.A. from McGill University and a PhD in Sociology from New York University, where he was also a Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge. He spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy at the University of Utah.

Goldstein’s research interests include the politics of criminal justice policy, racial and ethnic politics, and bureaucratic politics. Her current work includes a book project exploring the causes and impacts of an increase of progressive prosecutors in the U.S. 

Goldstein received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government and her B.A. in Statistics from Harvard College.