Daniel Q. Gillion is the Presidential Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Gillion completed his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester, where he was the distinguished Provost Fellow. He later went on to serve as the Ford Foundation Fellow and the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University. His research interests focuses on racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, public policy, and the American presidency. Professor Gillion is the author of The Political Power of Protest: Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy (Cambridge University Press), which was the winner of the 2014 Best Book Award from the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He is also the author of the recently completed book Governing with Words: The Political Dialogue on Race, Public Policy, and Inequality in America (Cambridge University Press). Professor Gillion’s research has also been published in the academic journals Electoral Studies and Journal of Politics as well as in the edited volumes of Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior.