Hampshire College

Alan Goodman was appointed vice president and dean of faculty in July 2009. A professor of biological anthropology, Dean Goodman has been a member of the Hampshire College faculty since 1985 and is a former dean of the School of Natural Science.

He is past president of the American Anthropological Association, the world’s largest professional organization of anthropologists. He co-directs the association’s public education project “RACE: Are We So Different?”.

An internationally recognized expert, Professor Goodman teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political-economic processes such as poverty, inequality, and racism. He is an associate director of the New York African Burial Ground Project and works on dietary and nutritional changes globally and especially in Mexico.

Goodman assumed leadership of academic affairs at an important time in Hampshire’s history: the College is preparing to celebrate its 40th anniversary during 2010 and is involved in a community-wide strategic planning process focused on continuing innovation.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in zoology and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and was a research fellow in physiology at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and in international nutrition at the University of Connecticut.