Sara Goodman, UCI political science assistant professor, is the recipient of the 2012 James B. Christoph Prize for the best conference paper on British politics, presented by the American Political Science Association’s British Politics Group. The honor recognizes her study on Western European states’ integration requirements for citizenship and residence. She finds that while states collaborate on similar requirements, the ways in which they are applied differ greatly due to varying existing citizen membership policies and politic pressures. The study is published in the October issue of World Politics.

Goodman joined the UCI faculty in fall 2009 following a six month post doctoral fellowship at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She completed her Ph.D. at Georgetown University and specializes in the study of membership requirements for citizenship acquisition through naturalization.