Baylor in New Zealand is led by two long-term faculty at Baylor…
Dr Clay Butler
- Dr Clay Butler is a Senior Lecturer of linguistics and has taught at Baylor University since 2001. He has led study abroad groups to Peru in the past, where students studied Spanish and hiked to Machu Picchu. Dr Butler and his wife currently live in Martin Hall on Baylor campus serving as Faculty in Residence since 2015. He earned a BA from Baylor in 1988, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. Before becoming a professor, he worked 12 years in computer programming at banks and hospitals. When he and his wife were a young couple, they served in Ulan-Ude, Russia for a year and a half teaching English and helping start a new church. They are the parents of 4 children, three of whom have degrees from Baylor. They also have a grandson whom they expect to be in Baylor’s class of 2044.
Dr Jim Kendrick
- Dr Jim Kendrick is professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Film and Digital Media at Baylor University, where he teaches classes on film theory/aesthetics, the history of motion pictures, film genres, and media and society. His primary research interests are post-Classical Hollywood film history, violence in the media, the films of Steven Spielberg, cult and horror films, media censorship and regulation, and cinema and new technologies. He lives in Waco, Texas, with his wife, Cassie, and their children, James and Lily.