Mark David Hall

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Mark David Hall (born 22 February 1966),^[1] is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. He is the author of a number of books on religion and politics in American life. The majority of his research has been in religion in the American founding era.

Education

In 1988, Hall received a BA in political science from Wheaton College (Illinois) and in 1993 received his PhD in government from University of Virginia.

Early career

Prior to his 2001 hiring at George Fox University, he taught from 1993 to 2001 at East Central University, first as an assistant and then an associate professor.^[2] He has served as Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics at George Fox since 2005. His primary teaching fields are political theory, constitutional law, and religion and politics in America.^[3]

Later career

Hall’s scholarly work is focused on issues of religion in the American founding era. In particular, his writing is often concerned with dispelling misconceptions that the Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state. Instead, he argues that there are good reasons to believe many Founders were influenced by orthodox Christianity and that virtually none of them favored anything approximating a contemporary understanding of the separation of church and state. See, for instance, his 2010 lecture at the Heritage Foundation that was covered by C-Span.^[4] Hall demonstrates that these distortions are of more than scholarly interest, arguing that they have had a profound impact how the Supreme Court has interpreted the religion clauses of the First Amendment.^[5]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Hall, Mark (1997). The political and legal philosophy of James Wilson, 1742–1798. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826211033. 
• Hall, Mark D.; Dreisbach, Daniel L.; Morrison, Jeffry H. (2004). The founders on God and government. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780742522794. 
• Hall, Mark D. (editor); Hall, Kermit L. (editor); Wilson, James (author) (2007). Collected Works of James Wilson, 2 Vols. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund Press. 
• Hall, Mark D.; Dreisbach, Daniel L. (2009). The sacred rights of conscience: selected readings on religious liberty and church-state relations in the American founding. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund Press. ISBN 9780865977150. 
• Hall, Mark D.; Dreisbach, Daniel L.; Morrison, Jeffry H. (2009). The forgotten founders on religion and public life. Notre Dame, Indianapolis: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268026028. 
• Hall, Mark D.; Gregg II, Gary L. (2012). America's forgotten founders (2nd ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books. ISBN 9781610170239. 
• Hall, Mark D. (2013). Roger Sherman and the creation of the American republic. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199929849. 
• Hall, Mark D. (2013). Roger Sherman and the creation of the American republic. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199929849.  Also available online at: Hall, Mark D. (2012). "Roger Sherman and the creation of the American republic". Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199929849.001.0001. 

Journal articles

• Hall, Mark D. (Summer 2002). "Beyond self-interest: the political theory and practice of evangelical women in Antebellum America". Journal of Church and State. Oxford Journals. 44 (3): 477–499. doi:10.1093/jcs/44.3.477. 
• Hall, Mark D. (2006). "Jeffersonian walls and Madisonian lines: the Supreme Court's use of history in religion clause cases". Oregon Law Review. University of Oregon. 85 (2): 563–614.  Pdf.

References

External links

• Hall’s Listing on the Christians in Political Science website
• Hall’s Faculty Page at George Fox University
• Link to "Jeffersonian Walls and Madisonian Lines," which surveys the Supreme Court's use of history in First Amendment jurisprudence
• Hall's Lecture at the Heritage Foundation on "Religious Liberty and the Founding of America"