Provost Brickhouse Unveils 2025-2026 Readers Meet the Author Selections

Since 2021, Provost Nancy Brickhouse has selected single-authored book-length works by Baylor faculty to feature in the Readers Meet the Author series. This year, Brickhouse selected the following books and authors:

• Law from Below: How the Thought of Francisco Suárez, SJ, Can Renew Contemporary Legal Engagement (Georgetown University Press, 2024) by Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, Director, Institute for Faith and Learning, and Associate Professor of Ethics, Faith, and Culture at George W. Truett Theological Seminary
• Oligarchy in America: Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few (The University of Alabama Press, 2024) by Luke Winslow, Associate Professor of Communication
• Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry (Brazos Press, 2025) by Beth Allison Barr, The James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History
• Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Serhiy Kudelia, Associate Professor of Political Science
• Another Throat: 21st Century US Persona Poetry and the Archive (The University of North Carolina Press, 2024) by Ryan Sharp, Assistant Professor of English

Throughout the 2025-2026 academic year, the Baylor Libraries will host a series of Readers Meet the Author sessions that are available both in-person and virtually via Zoom Webinar that will place these authors in conversation with a colleague of their choosing. Audience Q&A—both in-person and virtual—is an important component of each session. A complete schedule of these events and participants is available at provost.web.baylor.edu/rma.

“The Readers Meet the Author series continues to showcase the exceptional work of our faculty and celebrate the enduring practice in the Academy of engaging ideas for the sake of civil academic discourse,” said Baylor President Linda Livingstone. “These conversations sharpen our intellectual sensibilities and make faculty scholarship even more accessible to our peers within the Baylor community."

The Readers Meet the Author series is presented by the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost and hosted by the Baylor Libraries. Each session is followed by a reception with light refreshments and a book signing with the author. Copies of this year’s Readers Meet the Author selections are available on a featured display in the Baylor Bookstore and will also be available for purchase at each session.

For more information about the Readers Meet the Author series, contact the Office of the Provost at Provost_Office@baylor.edu.