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Keith Gåddie is President's Associates Presidential Professor of Architecture, associate dean of the college, and special assistant to the university president at the University of Oklahoma. Since 2010 he has also been editor of the journal Social Science Quarterly. He teaches Architecture of Democracy, 5th Year Design Studio, and Professional Project Research in the Gibbs College. Keith studies the built environment and democratic values. His most recent book, The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces, explores the architecture and meaning of the Supreme Court and the overall evolution of the concept of 'courthouse' and U.S. judicial architecture. He is author or coauthor of over 20 other books including the forthcoming Democracy's Meaning: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters (Michigan), Regulating Wetlands Protection (SUNY Press), Triumph of Voting Rights In the South (OU Press), Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act (OU Press), The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics (Georgia), and The Economic Realities of Political Reform (Cambridge). He has also published roughly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and professional monographs. Robert Rabil is professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. He served as the Red Cross's Chief of Emergency in the Baabda region, Beirut, during Lebanon's civil war and was the project manager of the US State Department-funded Iraq Research and Documentation Project. He has been awarded the LLS Distinguished Faculty Award, LLS Distinguished Professor of Current Affairs, and FAU Scholar of the Year award. He was conferred with an honorary Ph.D. in humanities from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He is author of Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel and Lebanon, Syria, the United States and the War on Terror in the Middle East, Religion, National Identity and Confessional Politics in Lebanon, Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism, The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: The Double Tragedy of Refugees and Impacted Host Communities, and White Heart. |
