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THE AUTHORS

David Campbell (Notre Dame) & Robert D. Putnam (Harvard)

Robert D. Putnam
The Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, principal investigator of The Saguaro Seminar, and seminar participant

Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy. He has served as chairman of Harvard’s Department of Government, Director of the Center for International Affairs, and Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also Visiting Professor and Director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester in the U.K.

He is author or co-author of more than a dozen books and more than thirty scholarly articles published in ten languages, including Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (1993); Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (1993); Hanging Together: The Seven-Power Summits (1984); Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (1981); Comparative Study of Political Elites (1976); and Beliefs of Politicians (1973). Professor Putnam was educated at Swarthmore College, Balliol College, Oxford; and Yale University, and has received honorary degrees from Swarthmore and Stockholm University. He has taught at the University of Michigan and served on the staff of the National Security Council. In 2001-2002 he served as President of the American Political Science Association. He has written numerous books including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), and more recently a collective volume Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society (2002). In 2003, he completed Better Together describing a dozen promising new examples of social capital-building in communities across America. He is currently undertaking research on the challenges of building community in an increasingly diverse society.

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David Campbell
David Campbell (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002) is the John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Political Science, as well as a research fellow with the Institute for Educational Initiatives. His recent book Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life (Princeton University Press), demonstrates how communities foster civic norms, and how civic norms adopted in adolescence can lead to a lifetime of civic engagement. He is also the editor of A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election (Brookings Institution), a co-author of The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, and Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do About It, as well as co-editor of Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (all Brookings). In addition to these books, he has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, American Politics Research, Education Next, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He has won awards from the American Political Science Association for the best doctoral dissertation in American politics, the best paper on elections and voting, and (twice) for the best paper on religion and politics at the association’s annual meeting. He is currently collaborating with Robert Putnam on a study of religion’s changing role in American civic life.

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Shaylyn Romney Garrett served as a field researcher on many of the congregational close-ups that she then turned into the vignettes of this book.

Shaylyn Romney Garrett received her BA in Government from Harvard University in 2002. She has been working on the American Grace project since its inception, and her writing for the book is her first publication.

She specializes in ethnographic research and writing, and her interests include religiously-inspired social movements, intentional communities, and the complexities of international development and cross-cultural encounters. In addition to writing, she has done extensive work educating and empowering marginalized populations in the United States, including undocumented immigrants and the homeless.

She and her husband are currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers in Jordan, and she is busy writing about her encounter with Islam and her experience of village life in the Middle East.