Rebecca McCumbers Flavin is Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Baylor University, where she teaches courses in American constitutional law, politics and religion, and political philosophy. Professor Flavin also serves as faculty advisor for Baylor University’s Model United Nations team. In addition to constitutional law, her research interests are in the history of political thought and politics and religion. She is currently working on a book about religion and republicanism in the thought of Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolo Machiavelli. Flavin earned her doctorate in political science from the University of Notre Dame.