[2] 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.
[7] As of 2020[update], Wallace Goodman also sits on the Editorial Board of the International Studies Quarterly.
[8] 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.
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.