Dr. Barry G. Hankins is a historian of religion and American culture, Protestant fundamentalism and evangelicalism, and church and state in American history. Currently, he is a Professor and Chair of History at Baylor University. He also edits the Journal of Church and State.
Hankins's work has appeared in Church History, Religion and American Culture, Journal of Church and State, Fides et Historia, and other journals. He is the author or co-author of eight books, and editor or co-editor of four others, including "Baptists in America: A History," published in 2015, "Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President," published in 2016, and "Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today’s Culture Wars," published in 2010. His 2008 biography, "Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America," received the John Pollock Award for Christian Biography.