Faculty

Their training and experience in the disciplines of theology, church history, law, intellectual history, and social science provide the Institute with an interdisciplinary foundation essential to research, writing, and teaching in the broad field of church-state relations. The Institute was founded in 1957 and since that time has earned a recognized place as a leader in the field of church-state studies. In addition to its own initiatives, the Dawson Institute regularly cooperates with such institutions as the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University, the International Center for Law and Religion at Brigham Young University, and the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.

	Christopher Marsh (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) joined Baylor University in 1999, and since the spring of 2006 has served as Director of the Institute, as well as serving as Director of Asian Studies between 2001-2007. A Professor of Political Science and Church-State Studies, Dr. Marsh's expertise is in religion, politics, and society, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and East Asia. His particular interests include religion and ethnic conflict, religious liberty in transition societies, and the dialogue between the sociology of religion and the field of church-state studies. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Orthodoxy, Islam, and Church-State Relations in Russia (with Wallace Daniel and Peter L. Berger), and he has published numerous articles in such places as Religion, State & Society; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Society; and Journal of Church and State.
	Charles McDaniel, (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) joined the Institute in 2002 and has served as associate director since spring 2008. He returned to academics after a seventeen year career in business, earning a Masters of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Church-State Studies from Baylor in 2002. His areas of research include the interaction of religion and law in American culture and American Christian social thought, with particular emphasis on the philosophy of Christian Realism as developed in the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr. Dr. McDaniel presently teaches a course in "Islam and Democracy" and is exploring "Islamic economics" with particular attention to the developmental parallels between Muslim economic thought and Christian economic ideas as they evolved over the course of Western history.
	Peter Ludwig Berger is Distinguished Professor of Church-State Studies, and University Professor of Sociology and Theology Emeritus at Boston University, where from 1985-2009 he directed the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. Professor Berger has written dozens of books and hundreds of articles on sociological theory, the sociology of religion, and Third World development, many of which have been translated into dozens of foreign languages. Among his more recent books are In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions without Becoming a Fanatic (with Anton Zijderveld, 2009); Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1997); Modernity, Pluralism and the Crisis of Meaning (with Thomas Luckmann, 1995); The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality and Liberty (1988); and The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground (with Brigitte Berger, 1983). In 1992, Professor Berger was awarded the Mannes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture.
	William A. Mitchell, (B.S., M.A., PhD), is Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, and served in the Department of Political Science (1992-2007), Director of Middle East Studies, Director of Baylor Study Abroad in Turkey and Greece, and Joe Murphy Chair and Director of the Center for International Education at BU (2000-2007). Professor Mitchell joined the Institute in 2009. He teaches multidisciplinary courses on Middle East Studies, ethnopoltical conflicts, terrorism and religion, mitigation of humanitarian crises and international security. Professor Mitchell led academic teams to Iraq five times from 2003-2007 and was instrumental in creating a Center for Democracy in northern Iraq. He has published numerous articles in national and international journals and is writing his third book. Professor Mitchell has extensive field experience in the Middle East and has responded as a social scientist for NSF earthquake disaster research teams on many occasions. Dr. Mitchell was recognized for this research with the United States Air Force Humanitarian Service Award for Armenia, Iraq, and Turkey. He is also a veteran of the Vietnam and first Gulf war (Colonel, USAF, retired).
	Rev. Dn. Daniel Payne (B.A., M.Div., Ph.D.) joined the Institute in 2006. He teaches courses on International Human Rights, Civil Religion, and Religion, Law, and Politics. His areas of research include Orthodox theology and religion, politics, and society. He is the author of several articles in such places as Religion, State, and Society, Sobornost', Nationalities Papers, and The BYU International Law Review.
Affiliated Faculty
	Francis J. Beckwith, (B.A., M.A., M.J.S., PhD.), is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies and served as associate director of the institute from 2003-2006. Dr. Beckwith holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University, and the Master of Juridical Studies degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Prior to arriving at Baylor, Dr. Beckwith was a James Madison Fellow at Princeton University. Dr. Beckwith's areas of research and expertise include bioethics, legal, religious and moral philosophy, and constitutional issues. He has published over one dozen books and over sixty articles and book chapters. His publications since arriving at Baylor have appeared in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Journal of Law & Religion, Philosophia Christi, and Christian Bioethics.
	Barry G. Hankins, (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) joined the Institute in 1996. He holds an M.A. in Church-State Studies from Baylor and a Ph.D. in History from Kansas State University. He has published numerous books and many articles in academic journals. As a Professor of Church-State Studies and of History, he possesses considerable expertise in religion and American culture, Protestant fundamentalism and evangelicalism, and the relationship of church and state in American history.
	Perry L. Glanzer, Ph.D., received his B.A. from Rice University in Religion, History and Political Science, a M.A. from Baylor in Church-State Studies, and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His first book, The Quest for Russia's Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in Post-Communist Russia (Baylor University Press, 2002) addressed post-communist moral education. More recently, his second book, Christianity and Scholarship in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2007, coauthored with Todd Ream) reviewed recent developments in the integration of faith and learning in the academy. Prof. Glanzer currently teaches courses addressing church-state issues, the philosophy of education, moral and religious development in higher education, and character education.
	Jerold Waltman, (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science, having been at Baylor since 2003. Author or editor of eight books and numerous articles, Dr. Waltman specializes in public law, comparative law, British politics, minimum wage, and labor markets. At Baylor he teaches Constitutional Law, Public Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and British Politics.
	Stella Rock (M.A., D.Phil., University of Sussex, UK) is senior research fellow, Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society. Dr. Rock is a historian of Russian Orthodoxy, with particular interest in popular or lived religion, and the relationship between religious and national identity. She maintains a research interest in the relationship between religion, prejudice and conflict. She is the author of Popular Religion in Russia: 'Double-belief' and the Making of an Academic Myth (Routledge, 2007) as well as several articles and book chapters.