Gastón Espinosa is the Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religion at Claremont McKenna College. He specializes in American Religious History, Religion and Politics, and Religion, Race & Civil Rights Movements (Black, Mexican American, Native American).  He is the author/editor of Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Harvard Press, 2014), Religion and the American Presidency (Columbia Press, 2009), and Religion, Race, and the American Presidency  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).  He was a William Simon Fellow in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and is the Co-Editor of The Columbia University Press Series in Religion and Politics.