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Professor Goldstein, who joined the CU faculty in 1994, received her B.S. in Rural Sociology from Cornell University, Ed.M., Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Goldstein has written extensively on the intersection of race, gender, poverty and violence in Brazil. She is the author of the critically acclaimed , and winner of the 2005 Margaret Mead award for her contributions to public anthropology. Laughter Out of Place focuses on the lives of impoverished domestic workers living in Rio de Janeiro’s infamous shantytowns who cope with unbearable suffering, violence, and social abandonment. The book came out in  with a New Preface in 2013.

Currently, Professor Goldstein is working on a series of interconnected projects within medical anthropology and the anthropology of science. She is writing about pharmaceutical politics and neoliberalism in Argentina and the United States, and is investigating the history of genetics, Cold War science, the health of populations, and the future of nuclear energy in Brazil.  She is currently leading a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project with colleagues at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Brazil and at CU.  The team is investigating issues related to the health of populations living proximate to the Angra nuclear complex in Brazil.

Professor Goldstein served as Director of the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences  (2012-2016) where she worked on the initiative  and other initiatives to support research in the social sciences at CU. She is one of the founders of the  and is currently serving as the Director. as where she is organizing two new initiatives on the . One initiative is titled,  and the second is titled, .

Professor Goldstein is one of the founders of the .