Keith Gåddie, Ph.D. is interim associate dean of the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture and executive faculty fellow of the University of Oklahoma. He is also President’s Associates Presidential Professor and H. Russell Pittman Professor of Architecture. He has authored or coauthored more than 20 books including “Regulating Wetlands Protection,” “Triumph of Voting Rights in the South,” “Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act,” and “The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia’s Progressive Politics,” and most recently “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Democratic Spaces.” His next book, “Democracy’s Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters” with Nick Davis and Kirby Goidel, explores how Americans conceive of democracy and tests the fragility and resilience of the American civic experiment.