Bailey Bettencourt

Bailey is a masters student at Baylor University. She received her B.A. in International Studies from Baylor University in 2015. Her research interests include terrorism in the 20th Century with a focus on American domestic terrorism, extremism, and right-wing paramilitary organizations. Specifically, she researches the importance of ideology within these organizations and the society they are a part of.

David D. Criscione

David is a doctoral student at Baylor University. He received his B.A. in History and International Relations from Wheaton College in 2018 and his M.Litt. in Early Modern History from the University of St. Andrews in 2019. His research examines the religious interactions between British Protestants, French Jesuits, and Indigenous Peoples of New England and Acadia during the early colonial period in the seventeenth-century Northeast. In particular, he focuses not only on the Protestants’ and Jesuits’ differing approaches towards missions, but also how Native communities adapted and synthesized new forms of religious expression and social organization amidst disease and colonization.

Katie Heatherly

Katie is a masters student at Baylor University. She received her B.A. in History from Union University in 2020. She studies the history of late twentieth-century evangelical and fundamentalist women, gender, and sexuality, particularly evangelical women’s sexual literature (i.e. marriage guides, sex manuals, purity literature).

Jacob Huneycutt

Jacob is a masters student at Baylor University. He received his B.A. in History from the University of Arkansas in 2021. He studies Baptists in America and Britain during the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. Particularly, he is interested in how their theological ideas, including positions they took on ecclesiology and eschatology, informed their political and ethical views and actions. He researches how these ideas intersected with events such as the Revolutionary War and the North Carolina Regulator’s Rebellion.

Joe Wilson

Joe is a doctoral student at Baylor University. He received his B.A. from Christendom College in 2018 and an M.A. in Medieval History from Baylor University in 2020. His research interests include sixteenth-century England, especially the reign of Queen Mary I (1553–1558).

Daniel J. Watkins

Daniel is an assistant professor of French history at Baylor University. He received his B.A. in History and Religion from the University of Florida in 2005, his M.A. in Early Modern European History from the University of Florida in 2008, and his Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from The Ohio State University in 2014. He specializes in the history of the Enlightenment, particularly the role of the Society of Jesus in Enlightenment debates and culture.