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Mark David Hall

Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Box 6092
503-554-2674
mhall@
Curriculum Vitae

Mark David Hall has been at George Fox since 2001. He received a BA in political science from Wheaton College, an MA and a PhD in political science from the University of Virginia.

Hall's primary research and writing interests are American political theory and religion and politics. He has published one book, The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798 (University of Missouri Press, 1997) and numerous articles. He has co-edited the Collected Works of James Wilson 2 vol. (Liberty Fund Press, 2007) and The Founders on God and Government (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). He is currently writing a book entitled The Old Puritan and a New Nation: Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic, and is co-editing The Forgotten Founders on Church and State (University of Notre Dame Press) and The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (Liberty Fund Press).

Mark is also a recognized expert on church and state issues.

Professor Hall is available for public speaking on the following topics:

• "Did America Have a Christian Founding?"
• "Jeffersonian Walls and Madisonian Lines: The Supreme Court's Use of History and the First Amendment's Religion Clauses"

Mark participated in a debate sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Listen to the debate, "Did America Have a Religious Founding?" online.

Mark teaches the following courses:

Introduction to Political Science
American Government
American Political Theory
Freedom From Fear: America's Response to Terrorism (with Mark Hatfield and Ron Mock)
Civil Rights and Liberties
Constitutional Law: Issues of National Power
Christianity and Politics in America
Congressional-Presidential Relations
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Senior Seminar