Frederick M. Shepherd is Chair and Professor in the Department of Political Science at Samford University. He is the author of the edited volume Christianity and Human Rights: Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice, and has published widely on religion and politics, US foreign policy, Latin American politics, genocide, and human rights. He has been an affiliated scholar with the Holocaust Education Foundation and the US Holocaust Memorial and Museum, and he currently serves as Amnesty International’s Legislative Coordinator for the state of Alabama.