Areas of Specialization

Constitutional Law, Religion, and Politics

  • First Amendment jurisprudence

  • Civil liberties ​​& civil rights

  • Church and state relations

  • Christian Nationalism

  • Cause lawyering

  • Religion and constitutional liberal democracy

  • The Christian legal movement

  • 501(c)(3) regulations

  • Religion and public life

  • Evangelical theology

  • Clergy Politics ​​

  • Evangelical political engagement

American Politics

  • Voting, Campaigns, and Elections

  • ​The Constitutional Presidency

  • The Judiciary

  • California Politics

  • National Powers

  • Race and Ethnic Politics

  • Indigenous Politics

  • ​Voting Rights

  • Administration of Elections

  • Immigration Politics​​

American Political Thought

  • The American Founding

  • The Federalist Papers

  • American Political Development

  • ​American Political Thought​

Political Philosophy

  • The history of political philosophy

  • Enlightenment liberalism

  • Reason vs. revealed religion

  • Ancient philosophy (esp. Plato)

  • Modern philosophy (esp. John Locke)

  • Postmodern philosophy (esp. Martin Heidegger)