Upon receiving her PhD, Wallace Goodman spent six months in the Netherlands completing a post-doctoral fellowship at
Maastricht University. She returned to North America and accepted an
assistant professor position at
University of California, Irvine's (UCI) political science department. During the 2013–14 academic year, Wallace Goodman earned UCI's Social Sciences Assistant Professor Research Award and UCI's Hellman Fellowship. She also received an
Israel Institute Grant to study citizenship and immigrant integration. Following these grants, she published her first book titled
Immigration and membership politics in Western Europe which won the 2015 Best Book Award from the European Politics & Society section of the American Political Science Association. , Wallace Goodman also sits on the Editorial Board of the
International Studies Quarterly. During the
COVID-19 pandemic in North America, she collaborated with
Shana Kushner Gadarian and
Thomas Pepinsky to survey "3,000 Americans on a wide range of health behaviors, attitudes, and opinions about how to respond to the crisis." They continued to survey Americans during the pandemic to see if their beliefs and attitudes had changed. By July, Wallace Goodman and her research team found that there were "growing partisan gap in terms of fear of the disease, perceived safety of different behaviors, and preferred policy solutions." ==Publications==