Ken­neth D. Wald is Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence and the Samuel Shorstein Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Cul­ture and Soci­ety at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da. His books include Reli­gion and Pol­i­tics in the Unit­ed States (8th ed.) and The Pol­i­tics of Cul­tur­al Dif­fer­ences: Social Change and Vot­er Mobi­liza­tion Strate­gies in the Post-New Deal Peri­od. He is cur­rent­ly work­ing on a mem­oir about the impact of the Holo­caust on three gen­er­a­tions of his family.