Dr. Daniel Bennett
Department Chair, Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for Faith and Flourishing
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University B.A., George Fox University
Daniel Bennett is Professor of Political Science at John Brown University, where he is also Director of the Center for Faith and Flourishing. He is the author of Uneasy Citizenship: Embracing the Tension in Faith and Politics and Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement. He has authored academic articles and chapters on the politicization of religious freedom, group attitudes and constitutional rights, federal judicial selection, legal advocacy, and more.
Dr. Bennett has written popularly for Christianity Today, Religion and Politics, and The Dispatch, among others. He has appeared in national and regional media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Associated Press, and National Public Radio. He is the Director for the Center for Faith and Flourishing, and has served in advisory roles with the American Values Coalition and Neighborly Faith. In 2023 he was named as a Public Life Fellow with the Center for Christianity and Public Life.
Dr. Bennett's teaching interests include religion and politics, American government and politics, and social science research. He regularly advises student research projects, some of which have been presented at national conferences. In 2021 one of these projects was awarded the Center for Public Justice's Hatfield Prize. He advises JBU's award-winning Model United Nations program, and has served in various administrative roles at the university. In 2024 he received JBU's Faculty Excellence Award.
Dr. Bennett and his wife, Caitlyn, have three children. Their family lives a mile north of campus on a couple of acres, where they have several chickens. They are members of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Siloam Springs.
