Our Team

Rebecca McCumbers Flavin joined the Baylor faculty as a lecturer in Fall 2010 from the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation, The Battle of the Unarmed Prophets: Religion and Republicanism in the Thought of Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolo Machiavelli, examines the similarities and differences between the models of church/state relations proposed by both thinkers. McCumbers Flavin has research and teaching experience in constitutional law, the history of political philosophy, and American politics, particularly in the area of religion and politics.

Andy Marshall joined the Department of Political Science in fall 2024 as a lecturer after three years as a junior research fellow (predoctoral/postdoctoral fellow) in Politics at the University of Oxford's New College. His Ph.D. dissertation "Language Policy and the Nation in East Africa" and postdoctoral and ongoing research examine how state language policies (laws and rules governing the use of various languages in schools, legislative debates, broadcast media, etc.) reflect and shape how people identify with their ethnicity and nation within ethnically and linguistically diverse societies through comparative case studies of Kenya and Tanzania. Marshall has experience teaching comparative government, African politics, political sociology, and international relations, and his Baylor courses include PSC 3304 Comparative Government and PSC 4v94 Governments and Politics of Africa.

Hannah Wardell Metcalf is the Regional Director of Programming for the Baylor in Washington Program. Before Baylor, she worked as a Program Associate for the Executive Leadership Seminars Program planning and executing values-based, Great Books centered seminars for executive level leaders. She also spent time in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Office, where she worked as a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Scheduling Assistant, the Jack Kemp Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute.

Originally from Colorado Springs, CO, Hannah graduated from Gordon College with a degree in Political Science. She lives in the Michigan Park neighborhood of Washington DC with her husband Jenson who works at the District Church.

Michaela Scott serves as the Program Associate for Baylor in Washington. She is a Baylor University graduate (University Scholar, 2020) where she studied Spanish and international studies, held leadership positions on the Model Organization of American States team, and participated in the Baylor in Washington semester program. Prior to her return to Baylor, Michaela worked in the international nonprofit and development space with a focus on human rights and religious freedom.