Meet the Faculty
Project Co-Leads
Whittney Barth is an Associate Teaching Professor at Emory Law School and Executive Director and Charlotte McDaniel Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. She teaches courses in law and religion and in employment law. Barth joined CSLR after nearly three years as a litigator with nationally-recognized plaintiffs’ firm where she worked primarily on employment discrimination matters. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and was Executive Comments Editor of the Chicago Journal of International Law. Prior to law school, Barth served for nearly five years as the Assistant Director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. Barth earned her Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Miami University, where she completed a double major in Comparative Religion and American Studies and a minor in Political Science. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review, the ABA Journal of Labor and Employment Law, Michigan State Law Review, and LAWS. She co-edits with John Witte the Cambridge Elements in Law and Religion series. Barth’s research interests include the place and impact of religion in American legal history, the development of the ministerial exception to antidiscrimination laws, employment law protections for our digital age, and the role of religious actors in the development of international human rights law.
Silas Allard is an Associate Teaching Professor at Emory Law School (beginning in January 2026), the Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and Religion, and a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Allard teaches courses in law and religion; immigration; and race, religion, and American legal history including a course on theory and method in law and religion that introduces law students to the study of religion and religion students to the study of law. Allard recently completed his PhD in Ethics and Society at Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion. In his doctoral dissertation, Allard explores the political-theology of nation formation through histories of exclusion in nineteenth century U.S. Supreme Court cases. This research builds on prior scholarship on migration ethics and belonging. He is a co-editor of the book Christianity and the Law of Migration (Routledge, 2022), and his writing has appeared in the journals Refuge and Political Theology, and in edited collections on vulnerability, global law, international law, and migration. Allard also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in religious studies from the University of Missouri at Columbia; a Master of Theological Studies from Candler School of Theology at Emory University; and a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law. Following completion of his JD, Allard spent two years at the Court of International Trade as a law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Donald C. Pogue.
Guest Faculty
Visiting Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Dean of Students and Academic Programs (Emory University School of Law)
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts)
Assistant Professor of Religion and Assistant Professor of International Literary and Cultural Studies (Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences)
Professor of Law and CSLR Berman Projects Director (Emory University School of Law)
Associate Dean for Faculty Development & A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Law (University of Georgia School of Law)
Associate Professor of Atlantic World History (Emory University College of Arts and Sciences)
Associate Professor of Law (Emory University School of Law)
Associate Professor and Winship Distinguished Religion Professor; Chair, Department of Religion (Emory University College of Arts and Sciences)
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
Assistant Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies (Villanova University College of Arts and Sciences)
Professor of Law (Wayne State University Law School)
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Public Policy and the Law and Director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life (Trinity College)
Assistant Professor of Law (Wake Forest School of Law)
Crillon C. Payne, II Professorship in Health Law Professor (University of Texas at Austin School of Law)
Professor of Comparative Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion (The Ohio State University)
Professor of American Religious History (Yale Divinity School)
Robert W. Woodruff Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor and CSLR Faculty Director (Emory University School of Law)