Bryan Ellrod
: Bryan Ellrod is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Leadership and Character in Pre-Law at Wake Forest University. His research engages questions of identity, membership, and responsibility at the intersections of law, religion, and politics. His dissertation, "Can These Bones Live," adopts the southwestern borderlands as a context for theological reflection, asking what it would mean to become neighbors to those who have lost their lives attempting to enter the United States through the Sonoran Desert. He holds a Ph.D., Th.M., and M.Div from Emory University and a B.A. from Florida Southern College. Ellrod resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with his wife, Courtney, and their border Collie, Ekko.