She holds the inaugural Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the University of Southern California Dornsife.
[2] In 2016/7 she was a Descartes Theme Group Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
[5] She is the author and editor of several books including: Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago University Press, 2008).
[6] In his review, Simon Kuper states that: 'Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: "Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.".
[7] She is the editor of Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society, along with Robert Frost (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004).