Rebecca Flavin
Director of Engaged Learning Curriculum
Office of Engaged Learning
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A., University of Notre Dame
B.A., Wheeling Jesuit University
Rebecca McCumbers Flavin joined the Baylor faculty as a lecturer in Fall 2010 from the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation, The Battle of the Unarmed Prophets: Religion and Republicanism in the Thought of Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolo Machiavelli, examines the similarities and differences between the models of church/state relations proposed by both thinkers. McCumbers Flavin has research and teaching experience in constitutional law, the history of political philosophy, and American politics, particularly in the area of religion and politics.