Robert Wuthnow

Robert Wuthnow is Andlinger Professor of Social Sciences and chair of the Sociology Department at Princeton University. He is the author of more than two dozen books. The book he is currently writing, Red State Religion, traces the history of religion and politics in Kansas from Abraham Lincoln’s visit in 1859 to the murder of Dr. George Tiller in 2009. Wuthnow’s grandfather lived in Olathe, Kansas, when the town’s inhabitants numbered fewer than 3,000.