Our Team

Dr. Corey is a professor of Political Science focusing on political philosophy in the Honors Program at Baylor University.  He is also an affiliated member of the departments of Philosophy and Political Science.  He was an undergraduate at Oberlin, where he earned a BA in Classics from the College and a BMus in music from the Conservatory.  He studied law and jurisprudence at Old College, Edinburgh before taking up graduate work in political philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author of two books, The Just War Tradition (with J. Daryl Charles) (2012) and The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues (2015).  He has written more than two dozen articles and book chapters in such venues as the Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, Modern Age, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, and the Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought. His current projects, Rethinking American Politics, and Liberalism & The Modern Quest for Freedom, examine the loss of healthy political association in the United States and offer strategies for reform. 

Dr. Matthew Lee Anderson is an Assistant Research Professor of Ethics and Theology at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion and the Associate Director of Baylor in Washington, and an Associate Fellow at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Oxford University, where he completed a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics. He is the founder of the web magazine Mere Orthodoxy, the author of Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to our Faith and The End of our Exploring, and has written for Christianity Today, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He is also the founder of 100 Days of Dante, the world’s largest online reading group for The Divine Comedy.

Hannah Wardell Metcalf is the Regional Director of Programing 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.

Annelise Claire is the Program Manager for Baylor in Washington, supporting student programming, event planning, and communications.  She earned her undergraduate degree from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, where she majored in Arabic and Digital Studies. Before joining BIW, Annelise worked in international communications and events for Qatar Foundation International, a DC-based organization that supports Arabic language education in the US and Europe.

Sara Vickery serves as the Events and Operations Manager for Baylor in Washington. She is based in South Bend, IN, and works remotely to support BIW events and student programming. Prior to joining the Baylor in Washington team, she served as the Director of Conference Services for Bethel University. In this role, she coordinated all logistics for over 200 internal and external events each year, including multiday conferences, graduation, and admissions events. While living in DC, she worked as the Events Manager for the Religious Freedom Institute and served as the primary planner for the RFI Annual Dinner, student seminars, and panel discussions. She was a participant in the fall 2019 Baylor in Washington cohort and interned at the Religious Freedom Institute.