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Resident & Non-Resident ScholarsA-C | D-F | G-I | J-L | M-R | S-V | W-Z Scholars (Last Name: A-C) Amy Adamczyk is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Professor Adamczyk has examined the influence of religion for explaining the decision to obtain an abortion, timing of first sex, marijuana use, and cross-national attitudes about homosexuality. She was recently awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine the influence of religion-supported after-school programs for young men’s health-related behaviors. With her co-authors Steven Stack and Liqun Cao, Professor Adamczyk was awarded the 2008 Donald MacNamara Award for outstanding paper of the year published by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. In 2009 John Jay College of Criminal Justice awarded Professor Adamczyk the Donald E. J. MacNamara Junior Faculty Award for significant scholarly contributions. [MORE INFORMATION - CLICK TO EXPAND/COLLAPSE]
Dr Denis Alexander is the Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow. Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Prior to that Dr Alexander was at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and spent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, where he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics. Dr Alexander was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry, before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. [MORE INFORMATION - CLICK TO EXPAND/COLLAPSE]
Christopher Bader is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Baylor University. His two specialties are the sociology of religion and criminology. He has authored ten articles which have appeared in journals such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Sociological Perspectives, Growth and Change, Western Criminology Review and Teaching Sociology. Bader has several works in progress or under review, including "A Survival Study of Communes: An examination of how images of God impact behavior and attitudes" (with colleague Paul Froese), and a study of how religion within the family influences deviant behavior. A consultant for the American Religion Data Archive for the last five years, Bader helps the site to add data files to its collection and add new on-line analysis features. He also consulted with the Religious Congregations & Membership Study (2000), helping them prepare a CD for distribution with their publications.
Abjar Bahkou is an adjunct professor of Arabic literature and language at the University of North Texas, Denton and at Baylor University. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 in Islamic Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies and his Ph.D. in Education in 1998 from Salesian Pontifical University both in Rome, Italy. He is fluent in Arabic, Syriac (Classical Aramaic), English, Italian, French and Hebrew (Biblical). He is the author of numerous publications on Islamic and Christian studies. On of which is the Christian Legend of Monk Bakira
Beth Barr is an Assistant Professor of European Women’s History in the Baylor History department. After receiving her BA in History, minor in Classics, from Baylor University in 1996, she continued her studies in the Medieval History, Religious Studies, and Women’s Studies programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a significant amount of coursework from at Duke. She received both her graduate degrees from UNC-CH: her MA in Medieval History in 1999 and her PhD in Medieval History in 2004. She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Religion department at Baylor University and is currently the Assistant Professor of European Women’s History in the Baylor History department. She is particularly interested in women and religion in England, 1350-1650, and most of her research revolves around women, priests, and pastoral literature (sermons, clerical handbooks, didactic religious texts) in the late medieval/early modern church.
David Bebbington took his degrees at the University of Cambridge and joined the Department in 1976. He was promoted to a Personal Chair in 1999. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at Baylor University, Texas, in the fall semesters of 2003 and 2005. In 2006-07, he was the President of the Ecclesiastical History Society. [MORE INFORMATION - CLICK TO EXPAND/COLLAPSE]
Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he is also Fellow and Faculty Associate in the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. Although his appointment is in the department of philosophy, he also teaches courses in political science as well as in the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, where he served as its Associate Director from July 2003 until January 2007. [MORE INFORMATION - CLICK TO EXPAND/COLLAPSE]
As Chair of Environmental Studies, my major goal is to support our students by organizing an interdisciplinary curriculum with student friendly undergraduate and graduate degree programs. I love teaching, and my favorite courses include Conserving Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management. My present research interests are primarily in environmental ethics, and recent projects have investigated the ethics of commercial fishing and the environmental ethics of Christian art. I am also supervising research involving habitat assessment in local forests and along the shores of Lake Waco. I remain committed to a peaceful and intellectually stimulating synthesis of Christian values and thought with environmental education, and believe the Department of Environmental Studies can set a good example to the rest of the campus in its pursuit of interdisciplinarity in the sciences and social sciences.
Arthur C. Brooks became the president of American Enterprise Institute in January 2009. He is the former Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Whitman School of Management. Brooks earned his PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the Rand Graduate School in 1998, and also holds an MA and BA in economics. [MORE INFORMATION - CLICK TO EXPAND/COLLAPSE]
Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut is the Bishop Walter Sullivan Endowed Chair of Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a leading international authority on Christianity in Latin America, especially in Brazil and Mexico. He is the author of two books and many scholarly articles. His first book “Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty” (Rutgers University Press, 1997), examines the meteoric growth of Pentecostalism among the popular classes of Brazil. [MORE INFORMATION - CLICK TO EXPAND/COLLAPSE]
William Clark's research explores how political and social institutions can simultaneously be the product of human choice and an important determinant of human behavior. Much of his work has focused on the political control of the macroeconomy in an open economy setting. Specifically, he has examined a) the effect of central bank independence, capital mobility, and fixed exchange rates on monetary and fiscal policy choices made by survival-maximizing incumbents; b) the effect of elections and partisanship on macroeconomic outcomes; and c) the choice of monetary institutions in a world of mobile capital. He has also done some work on the politics of international trade. |
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Denis Alexander
Abjar Bahkou
Beth Allison Barr
R. Andrew Chesnut
William R. Clark
