Speaker Keith Gaddie

Keith Gaddie is President's Associates Presidential Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, senior fellow of OU’s Headington Residential College, associate director of the OU Center for Intelligence and National Security and general editor of Social Science Quarterly.  He earned his B.S. degree from the Florida State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science (1993) from the University of Georgia. From 1993-1996 he was Freeport-McMoRan Environmental Policy Postdoctoral Fellow and research assistant professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.  Keith joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma in 1996 where he regularly teaches classes on southern politics, American government, elections and the architecture of democracy.

Keith’s wife, Kim, is a Norman Rotarian.