# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alice-goffman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:01:10.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alice-goffman"
name: "Alice Goffman"
slug: "alice-goffman"
description: "Alice Goffman is an American sociologist, urban ethnographer, and author. She was assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and visiting assistant professor of sociology at Pomona College. She is known for the controversy that resulted from the publication of her 2014 book On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. She is the paternal granddaughter of Max Goffman and Anne Goffman, née Averbach, daughter of famed sociologist Erving Goffman and niece to famed actress Frances Bay."
tagline: "American sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/17goffman-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1982"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.136254666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/show-person.php?person_id=1335"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اليس جوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Goffman"
    title: "Alice Goffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Goffman"
    title: "Alice Goffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20017747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations