Ronald Keith Gaddie University of Oklahoma, USA

Ronald Keith Gaddie is President's Associates Presidential Professor & Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, associate director of the OU Center for Intelligence and National Secturity, and editor of Social Science Quarterly.  He previously taught at Tulane University and Centre College.  Keith received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (1993) and his undergraduate degree from Florida State University (1987). He has published over 20 books on campaign politics, election law, sports, and fiction, including The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act (2016); The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics (2015); Politics in America, 10th & 11th eds (2014, 2016) ; Georgia Politics in a State of Change, 1st & 2d eds. (2009, 2013); Ghosts on Vintners Landing: A Novel (2010); The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South (2009, winner of the V. O. Key Award); and University of Georgia Football (2008).