Richard Wood

In 2023, Richard L. Wood became the President of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He served as Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico for 27 years (and is currently on leave there). He is the author or co-author of several dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on the role of religion in social movements, the sociology of religion, public Catholicism, political sociology, and democratic theory, many of them focusing on faith-based/broad-based community organizing efforts. He is the author of _Faith in Action_ (University of Chicago Press, 2002; and (with Brad Fulton) of _A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2015), both award-winning books.

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