Richard Fox has spent decades teaching Intro American Government to students that have become less and less engaged by traditional approaches. He teaches in the areas of U.S. Congress, elections, and media and politics at Loyola Marymount University. His research, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on political ambition, electoral behavior, and gender politics. He is the coeditor of Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics, 5th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2021)). He is also the coauthor of Women, Men, and U.S. Politics: 10 Big Questions (W. W. Norton, 2017); Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics (Oxford University Press, 2015); It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office (Cambridge University Press, 2010); and Tabloid Justice: The Criminal Justice System in the Age of Media Frenzy, 2nd edition (Lynne Rienner, 2007). His work has appeared in journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Psychology, PS, and Politics & Gender. He has also published op-eds in the Washington Post, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. After graduating from Claremont McKenna College, he earned his MA and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.