While studying at
Harvard University, Goodwillie became a
Putnam Fellow in 1974 and 1975. He then studied at
Princeton University, where he completed his PhD in 1982, under the supervision of
Wu-Chung Hsiang. He returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow in 1979, and was an associate professor (without tenure) at Harvard from 1982 to 1987. In 1987 he was hired with tenure by
Brown University, where he was promoted to full professor in 1991. He developed the
calculus of functors in a series of three papers in the 1990s and 2000s, which have since been expanded and applied in a number of areas, including the theory of
smooth manifolds,
algebraic K-theory, and
homotopy theory. He has advised 13 PhD students. == Recognition ==