Rebecca Mccumbers Flavin

Biography

Rebecca McCumbers Flavin joins the Baylor faculty as a lecturer in Fall 2010 and comes to Baylor 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.

Research Interest

constitutional law, the history of political philosophy, and American politics, particularly in the area of religion and politics