The Center for the Study of Law and Religion is proud to announce the inaugural class of McDonald Distinguished Fellows.
These thirteen Christian scholars of law, theology, history, and ethics have embarked on distinguished academic careers and will be appointed to a five-year term from 2019 to 2024. In partnership with the McDonald Agape Foundation, this diverse group of scholars will receive financial, intellectual, and social support from the CSLR as they produce books, articles, interviews, and public lectures. The Fellows will meet together for twenty days of intense roundtables with CSLR Director John Witte, Jr. and other senior CSLR scholars, and the group will remain in virtual contact throughout the five years – and ideally thereafter. The roundtables will first explore preliminary book projects, and then intense discussion of work in progress by each fellow. Our aim is to create an intense and intentional community of young Christian legal scholars who can discover and develop new layers of insight through deep conversation, and then communicate that new learning in traditional print and new virtual formats.
McDonald Distinguished Fellows
Kathleen Brady
Kathleen Brady is a Senior Fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. She holds a JD and Master of Arts in Religion from Yale University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and religion, including the First Amendment religion clauses...
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Samuel Bray
Samuel L. Bray is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, and previously served as a professor of law at UCLA. He is a leading scholar in the fields of remedies and equity, and also writes about constitutional law...
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Allen Calhoun
Allen Calhoun’s career has followed parallel tracks in law and theology. After completing seminary, he pursued a law degree, became a tax lawyer, and earned an LL.M. in taxation. His research interests led him to enter legal publishing...
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Nathan Chapman
Nathan Chapman is a tenured Associate Professor and award-winning teacher at the University of Georgia School of Law. He teaches courses in constitutional law, procedure, and legal ethics, and writes on due process and law and religion...
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Sarah Gerwig-Moore
Professor Sarah Gerwig-Moore teaches Criminal Law, Law & Literature, and clinical courses at Mercer Law School, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In 2013, she received the AALS Shanara Gilbert Emerging Clinician Award for work in developing and teaching the Habeas Project...
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Andrew Hayashi
Andrew Hayashi is an expert in tax law, tax policy and behavioral law and economics. He joined the University of Virginia School of Law’s faculty in July 2013. Before joining the UVA Law faculty, he was the Nourallah Elghanayan Research Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University...
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Terri Montague
Terri Montague combines her passion for thriving, sustainable communities, and economic justice as a federal government attorney and servant leader who shares her expertise with civic, faith-based, and community involvement efforts nationally, regionally and locally...
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Melissa Moschella
Melissa Moschella is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, received a Licentiate in Philosophy summa cum laude from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and earned her PhD in Political Philosophy from Princeton University...
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Brandon Paradise
Brandon Paradise is Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of race, law and religion and law and theology. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a master’s degree in church history from Union Theological Seminary...
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Audra Savage
Audra L. Savage is the post-doctoral fellow in Law, Religion and Human Rights at CSLR. Her work examines the law’s effect on the rights of racial and religious minorities, as well as the intersections of law and religion, law and race, and corporate theory...
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Mark Storslee
Mark Storslee is an Assistant Professor at Penn State Law. His research focuses on the First Amendment, especially religion and speech. He has published in the University of Chicago Law Review, The Review of Politics, and Political Theology among other journals...
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Anna Su
Anna Su is associate professor on the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Her research interests are in law and religion, and the law and history of international human rights. She is the author of Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power (Harvard University Press, 2016)...
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George Walters-Sleyon
George M. Walters-Sleyon possesses an interdisciplinary and international academic background. He earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Practical Theology, Comparative Criminal Justice / Criminology, and Ethics; he also served as a Tutor at the School of Law and the School of Divinity...
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John Bernau
John Bernau is the Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at the CSLR. His research focuses on religion, language, and culture from a sociological perspective. He previously served as a Digital Scholarship Specialist at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS)...
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Justin Latterell
Justin Latterell is the Director of Academic Programs and McDonald Distinguished Fellow in Law and Religion at CSLR. He previously served as Assistant Professor in the Practice of Sociology and Religion and Director of the Lilly Grant for Financial Literacy at Candler School of Theology...
Amy Wheeler
Amy Wheeler is Chief of Staff at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory. She holds a Master of Religion and Public Life degree from the Candler School of Theology and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Emory University with a focus on religion, music, and liturgy...
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John Witte, Jr.
John Witte, Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law McDonald Distinguished Professor of Religion, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory. An award-winning teacher, distinguished scholar, and long-serving director of the CSLR...
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McDonald Agape Foundation
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