Resident Scholar
Professor of Political Science
Baylor University
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Jerold L. Waltman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science, editor of the Journal of Church and State, and a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Religion.

He earned a B.A. from Louisiana Tech University and an M.A. from the University of Denver, both in history, and a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University.  Before coming to Baylor, he taught at Kankakee Community College, Louisiana College, and the University of Southern Mississippi.

His most recent books include: Principled Judicial Restraint (New York:  Palgrave, 2015), Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty:  The Case of City of Boerne v. Flores (New York:  Palgrave, 2013); Religious Liberty and Contemporary American Politics:  The Saga of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (New York:  Continuum, 2011); and Minimum Wage Policy in Great Britain and the United States (New York:  Algora, 2008).