Irwin L. Morris is William T. Kretzer Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Executive Director and Department Head of the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. His research covers a range of American institutions and political behavior, with a focus on Southern politics. He is the author of Movers and Stayers: The Partisan Transformation of Twenty-First Century Southern Politics (Oxford University Press, 2021), which won the Southern Political Science Association's 2022 V.O. Key Award for the best book on Southern politics.