Wheatley Fellows

Shima Baradaran Baughman has returned to BYU Law School as 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 criminal justice policy, forgiveness, prosecutors, bail, police reform, and how religious institutions impact criminal justice reform. Read Shima Baradaran Baughman's full bio.

Joseph Price is a Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University. He received a B.A. in Economics from BYU and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics, a Senior Fellow at the Austin Institute, and the Director of the BYU Record Linking Lab. Dr. Price loves mentored research with students and has over 60 undergraduate research assistants. He has published over 50 articles including articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Demography, and Management Science. He and his wife, Emily, are the parents of seven children (including one serving a mission in Uruguay).

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. He has recently published research on how adolescents and young adults of various faiths differ in their mental health and how their religiousness relates to their depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The overall focus of his work is identifying and supporting various ways religion may be helpful to individuals, families, and societies.

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. Consistent with BYU’s focus on involving undergraduates in research, Dr. Marks’ student teams have won five paper of the year awards from the National Council on Family Relations’ Religion and Family Life Section. Over the last five years, he has also published about 40 public scholarship articles on religion and families, and his research has received additional attention from outlets including The New York Times, National Review, and The Washington Times. He and his wife Sandra, who also teaches at BYU, were married in 1995 and have five children.

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) and his research has appeared in a variety of academic journals including the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Political Behavior. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 2004.

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.

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. Read Kevin J. Worthen's full bio.

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.

Paul E. Kerry is an associate director of the law school’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies and an associate professor of History. He is researching the development of civic culture in eighteenth-century European thought. Dr. Kerry holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is a member of Woolf Institute research project: Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations to be published by Cambridge University Press and is currently completing a volume of the University of California Press Strouse critical edition of Thomas Carlyle’s writings. He has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Cambridge, LSE, Edinburgh, and Oxford, where he continues to support the work of the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government.

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. Pope is the co-author of “Founding Factions: How Majorities Shifted and Aligned to Shape the U.S. Constitution”, as well as the author of several articles on a range of political topics including the American Founding, political parties, public opinion, ideology, and public policy, particularly family policy. Dr. Pope is a co-founder of the annual American Family Survey, a survey containing questions about people’s family lives as well as their policy attitudes about families. Most importantly, he is the husband of Kori Pope and father of Grace, Carly, & Delaney Pope.

Andrew L. Johns is a Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He also is a part of BYU’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000. His research focuses on US foreign relations and political history during the Cold War, with a particular interest in the presidency, the relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy, and the constitutional “invitation to struggle” between the executive and legislative branches. He also previously worked in the Office of the Historian in the US Department of State and taught at Gonzaga University and several universities in Southern California. He is the author and/or editor of six books. In addition to his scholarship, Dr. Johns has served as editor of an academic journal and book series. He has held elected office for multiple societies/associations of history and foreign relations and is the founding donor for the PCB-AHA’s Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award.

Hal Boyd is the Executive Editor of Deseret News National. He was previously the opinion editor of the Deseret News. 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.”

Stephanie Barclay is the Director of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative, which promotes freedom of religion or belief for all people through advocacy, student formation, and scholarship. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Barclay was an Associate Professor of Law at BYU Law, where she was twice voted Professor of the Year. Before becoming a professor, Barclay litigated First Amendment cases in D.C., where she represented many clients at both the trial and appellate level, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. Barclay has also served as a law clerk to Judge N. Randy Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to Justice Neil M. Gorsuch of the U.S. Supreme Court. Barclay is a Faculty Affiliate at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School; and a Nootbaar Fellow at the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at Pepperdine University. Her research focuses on the role our different democratic institutions play in protecting minority rights, particularly at the intersection of free speech and religious exercise. In 2011, she graduated summa cum laude from BYU Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. Barclay is currently completing a Ph.D. in Law at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar and a Tang Scholar.

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 Special Counsel at the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth. In 2021, President Joe Biden appointed him to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. A graduate of BYU and the University of Virginia School of Law, Judge Griffith was a litigation partner at Wiley, Rein and Fielding in Washington, D.C., prior to being named Senate Legal Counsel of the United States. In that capacity, he represented the interests of the Senate in litigation and advised the Senate leadership and its committees on investigations, including the impeachment trial of President Clinton. Prior to his appointment to the D.C. Circuit, Judge Griffith was the General Counsel of Brigham Young University. He has long been active in rule of law projects in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.