This year former Kellogg Visiting Fellow (fall 2008) Rachel Beatty Riedl is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nantes, France. This month her new book From Pews to Politics, co-authored with Gwyneth McClendon, is out. She is now the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies in the Government Department and the Director of the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. In addition, she co-hosts a podcast with Kim Yi Dionne called Ufahamu Africa, about life and politics on the African continent. www.ufahamuafrica.com (ufahamu means knowledge in Swahili)