
About Our Scholars
The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center has assembled a distinguished scholarly team – top historians, religious experts and legal scholars from across the nation and around the world – who are helping shape and review the narrative experience of the Discovery Center’s exhibit galleries while ensuring full historical accuracy. These scholars also help plan ongoing development as well as participate in educational programs.
The scholars include a Pulitzer-prize winning author, the Librarian of Congress Emeritus, an Ivy League university chaplain, a legal historian whose scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, a member of the federal commission that is planning the 2026 celebration that will mark the nation’s 250th birthday and many others whose commentary has appeared in the nation’s top media outlets.

Dr. Allan C. Carlson
President Emeritus of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society

Dr. Carli N. Conklin
Associate Professor at the University of Missouri’s School of Law and its Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy

Dr. Daniel Dreisbach
Professor, American University