Scholar Advisors
The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center
About our Scholars
The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center has assembled a distinguished scholarly team – top historians, religious experts and legal scholars from across the nation and around the world – who are helping shape and review the narrative experience of the Discovery Center’s exhibit galleries while ensuring full historical accuracy. These scholars also help plan ongoing development as well as participate in educational programs.
The scholars include a Pulitzer-prize winning author, an Ivy League university chaplain, a legal historian whose scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, a member of the federal commission that is planning the 2026 celebration that will mark the nation’s 250th birthday, the former chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and many others whose commentary has appeared in the nation’s top media outlets.
Dr. Carli N. Conklin
Associate Professor
University of Missouri’s School of Law and Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy
Dr. Mark David Hall
Professor of Politics and William Penn Honors Program Faculty Fellow
George Fox University
Dr. Daniel Walker Howe
Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Professor of History Emeritus
Oxford University, University of California at Los Angeles
Dr. Thomas Kidd
Inaugural holder of The James Vardaman Endowed Professorship of History and Associate Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion
Baylor University
Dr. Michael Lee
Grace F. Kea Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department
Eastern University
Dr. Wilfred McClay
G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Nicholas Miller
Professor of Church History and Director
International Religious Liberty Institute, Andrews University
Dr. Glenn A. Moots
Professor and Chairman, Philosophy and Political Science Director
Northwood University, Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise
Dr. Jeffry A. Morrison
Professor of American Studies, Director of Academics
Christopher Newport University, James Madison Foundation
The Rev. Dr. John R. Norwood
Pastor, Missiologist, Tribal Leader
Ujima Village Christian Church of Ewing
Dr. Eran Shalev
Professor and Chair of the Department of General History
University of Haifa, Israel
Dr. Sarah Morgan Smith
Fellow and Co-Director of the center's Religion in American History and Politics project
Ashbrook Center
Dr. Karen Taliaferro
Assistant Professor of Political Theory, School of Civic and Economic Thought
Arizona State University
Dr. Abraham Lee
Assistant Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and Information Communications Technology
Handong Global University