Professor Jim Goldgeier is the SIS PhD Program Coordinator and served as Dean of SIS from 2011-17. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, both at Stanford University, as well as a non-resident fellow at the Kennan Institute. He served as the chair of the State Department Historical Advisory Committee from 2021-2025 and as a member of the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board from 2022-2025. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2019-25. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2017-19, and in 2018-19, he held the inaugural Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-Russia Relations at the John W. Kluge Center. His most recent books are Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War (co-edited with Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson) and Foreign Policy Careers for PhDs: A Practical Guide to a World of Possibilities (co-authored with Tamara Cofman Wittes). 

Professor Goldgeier serves as a senior adviser to the Bridging the Gap initiative, which encourages and trains scholars and doctoral students to produce research oriented policy-relevant scholarship and theoretically grounded policy work, and he is co-editor of the Bridging the Gap Book Series at Oxford University Press. He is also past president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (2015-2017).