He wanted to teach overseas, so he accepted a position in Turkey at a middle school for boys, where he taught for four years.
Back in the US, Goodrich began a doctoral program in history at Columbia University, where he studied with Tibor Halasi-Kun (his thesis advisor) and Peter Gay.
[1] With the help of a Fulbright Scholarship, Goodrich completed his dissertation, an in-depth study and translation of the Tarih-i Hindi-i Garbi.
Upon completing his graduate studies, he and Carol Wright were married and he accepted a teaching position at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
In the early 1990s he was invited by the Topkapi Saray Museum Library to prepare a catalogue for their map collection, which he published in Imago Mundi.