Allison Brown

Education

• Ph.D. Baylor University, Religion (Historical Studies)
• M.A. Wheaton College, History of Christianity
• B.A. Oklahoma State University, History and Political Science

Area of Specialization

Protestant Reformation, early modern political thought and gender, biblical reception

Biography

Dr. Brown moved to Waco in 2019 to begin her PhD in Baylor’s Department of Religion. After graduating in 2024, she served as the 2024-2025 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Baylor’s Honors College. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on how Protestants in the early modern era critiqued tyranny and formulated justifications for legitimate resistance. She explores how English and French Protestant polemic used gendered understandings of the political realm as a lens through which to interpret, communicate, and apply biblical narratives on tyranny and resistance to their own sixteenth century context. She has published chapters on early modern political thought in The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition (Brill, 2024) and The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation (Oxford, 2024). Dr. Brown is also interested in the printing and reception of the biblical text in the early modern era and participated in an NEH Summer Seminar in 2022, “Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450–1650” at Ohio State University. 

Publications

“‘Weak Women’ and ‘Manful Soldiers of Christ:’ Gender and the Old Testament in the Political Writings of the Marian Exiles.” In The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition, edited by Yudha Thianto. Brill, 2024.

“Romans 13.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation, edited by Jennifer Powell McNutt and Herman J. Selderhuis. Oxford University Press, 2024. 

Co-editor, with Beth Allison Barr, Katherine Goodwin Lindgren, and David M. Whitford. “Special Issue: Regendering the Narrative: Women in the History of Christianity.” Church History and Religious Culture 103, no. 3–4 (Dec. 2023). 

 “Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism: Early Modern to Modern” and “Politics and the Bible (Reformation Era).” The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. De Gruyter, 2022, 2025. 

 Courses Taught at Baylor

• REL 1310 Christian Scriptures
• REL 1350 Christian Heritage
• BIC 1314 World Cultures I: The Roots of Culture
• BIC 2334 World Cultures III: the Modern World
• BIC 2344 World Cultures IV: The United States in the World
• BIC 2340 Social World II: The Conditions and Possibilities of Human Fulfillment
• GTX 2302 Medieval Intellectual Traditions