Dr. Derek H. Davis
Derek H. Davis (B.A., M.A., J.D., Baylor University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas) is Dean of the College of Humanities and Dean of the Graduate School at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas, and Director of the UMHB Center for Religious Liberty. He was formerly Director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Professor of Political Science, Baylor University, and Editor of Journal of Church and State. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist & the Course of American Church-State Relations (Prometheus, 1991), and Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent (Oxford, 2000). He has also published more than 140 articles in various journals and periodicals. He serves numerous organizations given to the protection of religious freedom in American and international contexts.
