Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University |

Daniel L. Dreisbach is Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University. Dreisbach's research interests include constitutional law and the intersection of religion, law, and politics in American public life. He has authored or edited eleven books, including Great Christian Jurists in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2019)(co-editor), Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (New York University Press, 2002). He has published more than 100 book chapters, reviews, and articles in scholarly journals, including American Journal of Legal History, Emory Law Journal, Journal of Church and State, and William & Mary Quarterly. He has served on the editorial board of Politics and Religion, a journal published by Cambridge University Press, and is a former managing editor of the Journal of Law and Politics. He has contributed essays to leading reference works, such as The Cambridge History of Religions in America (2012) and Oxford Handbook on Church and State in the United States (2010).

Dreisbach is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining American University’s faculty in 1991, he served as a judicial clerk in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and he practiced public interest law, specializing in civil and religious liberties. He is a past recipient of American University’s highest faculty award, “Scholar / Teacher of the Year.”