Barry Hankins
Barry Hankins is Professor of History at Baylor University and Editor of Journal of Church and State. He received the Ph.D. from Kansas State University. He is the author or co-author of eight books, and editor or co-editor of four others, including Baptists in America: A History (Oxford University Press, 2015) co-authored with Thomas Kidd, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today’s Culture Wars (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and most recently God’s Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism, Second Edition (University of Tennessee Press, 2022). His 2008 biography, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America, received the John Pollock Award for Christian Biography. His articles have appeared in Church History, Religion and American Culture, Journal of Church and State, Fides et Historia, and other journals.