Wheatley Fellows

Shima Baradaran Baughman is the Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law and a Distinguished Fellow at the Wheatley Institute. She is one of the top cited faculty in her field and a nationally recognized expert on bail, prosecutors, and police. Her current scholarship examines forgiveness, prosecutorial discretion, and how religious institutions impact criminal justice reform.

Justin Dyer is a Professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in human and community development from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, after which he was a postdoctoral fellow at Auburn University. In 2010 he joined the BYU School of Family Life and taught courses on family processes and statistics. He later joined the Religious Education faculty in 2015. His current research examines how religion, family, and mental health influence each other.

Loren Marks is a Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from BYU, and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. He is Co-Director of the American Families of Faith National Research Project. From 2002-2015, he taught at Louisiana State University, where he held the Kathryn Norwood and Claude Fussell Alumni Professorship. Dr. Marks’ research foci include religion and families, including and especially racial minority families. He has authored about 170 scholarly works, including four books.

Quin Monson is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, the Director of BYU’s Office of Civic Engagement, and a Senior Scholar with BYU’s Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy. He teaches and does research in religion and politics; public opinion; campaigns and elections; and survey research methods. He is the co-author of Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014).

Bryant Jensen is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at BYU. His research addresses what is means to teach equitably and how teachers learn to transform their interactions and lesson activities to improve learning opportunities for children and youth from disadvantaged communities. He collaborates with educators and research colleagues to design and test supports such as peer observation systems for teachers to learn together to enact equitable and ambitious teaching practices throughout the US and in the Global South.

Eva M. Witesman is a a professor in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University, where she teaches in the Master of Public Administration and Master of Business Administration programs and serves as Academic Director of the Ballard Center for Social Impact. She created a university studies degree entitled the "Philosophy of Discovery", comparing human advances in the arts and the sciences at University of Utah. She went on to receive a MPA and PhD from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Dr. Witesman's research explores corporate social strategy, public values, and perspectives on the nonprofit sector. Her research has appeared in top public and nonprofit administration journals. She is also the author of one book. Dr. Witeman is currently a research fellow at the Center for Organization Research and Design at Arizona State University. She serves on the editorial boards for the Public Administration Review and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and is the division chair for the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management.

Dr. Samuel Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and is the Associate Director of the Yale Depression Research Program. He graduated from medical school at John Hopkins University and completed his psychiatric residency training at Yale University. His research is centered on improving the quality of care for psychiatric patients and their community.

Kevin J. Worthen served as BYU’s 13^th president. Previous roles at the university included advancement vice president and dean of the Law School. In these roles, he oversaw such areas as athletics, BYU Broadcasting, LDS Philanthropies, alumni, and communications. Worthen was also The Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law, specializing in federal Indian law and the rights of indigenous peoples.

Hal Boyd is the Chief of Staff for the President of BYU. He was previously the Executive Editor and Opinion Editor of the Deseret News National. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Brigham Young University. Until April 2021, he served as Associate Professor of Family Law and Policy in Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life and Director of Family Public Scholarship. His essays have been published by The Atlantic, Newsweek, Religion & Politics, and First Things. He’s been a guest of NPR and CNN, and his commentary has been cited in the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post. His books include “Psalms of Nauvoo”, “Are Christians Mormon?”, and “College for the Commonwealth.”

Tyler Lindley is an associate professor of law at the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School. His research centers on the judicial role and the historical evolution of the judiciary in America.

Jeremy C. Pope is a Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. A graduate of BYU in Economics, Dr. Pope took his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford in 2004. Since then, he has worked at BYU with brief leaves at the Hoover Institution and the College of William and Mary. He teaches courses on American history, politics, political parties, the American Founding. He is also a former director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy and the current Co-Principal Investigator of the Cooperative Election Study.

Bradley Rebeiro is an Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University’s Law School. He earned a B.A. from BYU, J.D. from BYU Law, and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Rebeiro’s research ranges from US constitutional history to comparative constitutional inquiries. He has published, and has articles forthcoming, in top journals, such as the Notre Dame Law Review and Brigham Young Law Review. He researches the philosophy of law, as well as the influence of political thought on constitutional jurisprudence. His book manuscript, “Natural Rights (Re)Construction: Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Abolitionism”, investigates the constitutional thought of Frederick Douglass and its influence in the antebellum period and Reconstruction.

Tyson Reeder (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) is assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on early American transnational and international history.

Dr. Justin Collings joined the BYU faculty in 2013, when he began teaching at the J. Reuben Clark Law School. He received continuing faculty status at the Law School and was promoted to the rank of professor of law in 2019. Prior to his service as AAVP for Faculty Development, he served from 2020 to 2022 as an Associate Dean at the Law School. From January to June 2019, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Ambassador Jeff Flake recently served as the United States Ambassador to The Republic of Türkiye. He was confirmed without opposition by the United States Senate in October 2021. Prior to his ambassadorial service, Flake represented Arizona in the United States Senate from 2013 to 2019. He also represented Arizona in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.

Thomas B. Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush in 2005. He retired from the D.C. Circuit in 2020 and is currently a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, a member of the Boards of Directors of iCivics and Interfaith America, the Advisory Board of the Karsh Institute for Democracy at the University of Virginia, and of the Data Protection Review Court in the Department of Justice.

Jeffrey Rosen is a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. He is also the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center and a Contributing Editor of The Atlantic.