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Resident & Non-Resident ScholarsA-C | D-F | G-I | J-L | M-P | S-V | W-Z Scholars (Last Name: A-C)
Dr. Denis Alexander is the Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, to which he was elected a Fellow in 1998. Dr. Alexander is also a Senior Affiliated Scientist at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, where he supervises a research group in cancer and immunology, and where for many years he was Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development. Dr Alexander was previously at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), and prior to that 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 first prenatal diagnosis clinic in the Arab World. 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.
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 is 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. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. 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 Wallter 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
Christopher Bader
David Bebbington
Francis Beckwith
Susan Bratton
Arthur Brooks
R. Andrew Chesnut
William R. Clark
