Kenneth D. Wald
Distinguished Professor
303 Anderson Hall
(352) 273-2391 or 392-0262
About Me
Kenneth D. Wald is Distinguished Professor of Political
Science and the Samuel R. "Bud" Shorstein Professor
of American
Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida.
He has written
about the relationship of
religion and politics in the United States, Great Britain,
and Israel.
His most recent books include Religion
and
Politics
in
the
United States (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2010, 6th ed.), The
Politics
of
Cultural
Differences:
Social Change and Voter Mobilization
Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period (Princeton
University
Press, 2002, co-authored), and The
Politics
of
Gay
Rights (University of Chicago Press, 2000,
coedited with Craig Rimmerman and Clyde Wilcox).
He has been a Fulbright Professor at the Hebrew
University of
Jerusalem and a visiting scholar at the University of
Strathyclyde
(Glasgow), Haifa University (Israel), Harvard University,
the
University of Michigan, and the
Centennial Center for Political Science & Public
Affairs in
Washington, DC. He has lectured widely at academic
institutions in the
United States and abroad and given talks in such disparate
locales as
the Chautauqua
Institution in upstate New York, throughout China
for the U.S.
Information Agency, and at two House Democratic
Message Retreats
in
Congress.
Together with David C. Leege, he coedits the Cambridge
Studies
in
Social
Theory,
Religion and Politics for Cambridge
University Press. He has edited a special issue of
the International Political
Science Review
and served on the editorial board of Political Behavior
and the Journal for the Scientific
Study of
Religion. He current serves on the
editorial board of Politics
and
Religion.
At the University of Florida, he served as Chair
(1989-1994) and Graduate Coordinator (1987-1989) of the
Department of
Political Science. From 1999 through 2004, he served as
director of the Center
for Jewish Studies. In 2011, he received the
University's highest faculty award, Teacher/Scholar of the
Year.
Dr. Wald received his BA from the University of Nebraska,
where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and earned his
graduate
degrees at Washington University in St. Louis.
A full curriculum vitae is
available by request.
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science (1976) Washington
University-St. Louis.
M.A. in Political Science (1973) Washington
University-St.
Louis.
B.A. in Political Science (1971) University
of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
Academic Appointments outside UF
Visiting Professor, Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Fall, 2011)
Warren Miller Fellow in Comparative Electoral Politics, Centennial Center for Political Science & Public Affairs, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC (Fall, 2005)
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Spring, 2005)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Government, Haifa
University,
Israel (Spring 1995).
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem,
Israel
(1990-91)
Visiting Scholar, Department of Government, University of
Strathyclyde,
Glasgow, Scotland (1978-9)
Research Associate, Department of Political Science, Washington
University-St. Louis
(Summer 1977)
