Mapping Goffman’s Invisible College offers new insight into how academic communities take shape and how ideas move through informal networks. Focusing on the case of Erving Goffman, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz traces the web of colleagues, mentors, and institutions that influenced his work and helped carry it forward. Though often depicted as a solitary figure, Goffman was part of a loosely connected “invisible college” working across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Drawing on archival research and oral histories, the book reconstructs the intellectual infrastructure that supported his career and extended his influence across sociology, communication, and other neighboring fields. In doing so, it challenges familiar myths of the lone genius and shows how scholarly influence is built collectively—through networks, mentorship, and institutional ties. Mapping Goffman’s Invisible College will appeal to readers in the sociology of knowledge, communication, institutional and disciplinary history, and those interested in interdisciplinary research dynamics and how ideas circulate within academic networks.