Richard L. Wood is president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (and currently on leave as Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico). He is the author or co-author of several dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on social movements, the sociology of religion, political sociology, and democratic theory, many of them focusing on faith-based/broad-based community organizing efforts as case studies or for quantitative data analysis. He is the author of Faith in Action: Religion, race, and democratic organizing in America and co-author (with Brad Fulton) of A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy (both University of Chicago Press, 2002 & 2015. He serves as co-editor of the book series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion, and Politics at Cambridge University Press.