Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
Director of the Institute for Faith and Learning Associate Professor of Ethics, Faith & Culture, Truett Theological Seminary Affiliate Professor of Management, Hankamer School of Business

Elisabeth Rain Kincaid (B.A., Rice University; M.T.S., Perkins School of Theology at SMU; J.D., The University of Texas School of Law; Ph.D. The University of Notre Dame) is the director of Baylor's Institute for Faith and Learning (IFL). She also holds appointments as Associate Professor of Ethics, Faith and Culture at Truett Seminary and Affiliate Professor of Management at Hankamer School of Business. She previously held the Legendre-Soulé Chair of Business Ethics and served as the Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her past academic positions include Nashotah House Theological Seminary and the Aquinas Institute of Theology as well.
Elisabeth’s research focuses on the intersection of theological ethics, legal ethics and business ethics, virtue ethics, Protestant and Catholic natural law, early modern theology, and Catholic Social Thought. Elisabeth is the author of Law From Below: How the Thought of Francisco Suárez, SJ, Can Renew Contemporary Legal Engagement (Georgetown University Press). She is currently at work on a second book project exploring the relationship between business ethics and human flourishing (under contract with Georgetown University Press). She has published broadly including in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, The Scottish Journal of Theology, The Journal of Moral Theology, Political Theology, The Journal of Markets and Morality and Christian Scholar’s Review, as well as contributing chapters to numerous edited volumes. Elisabeth is a frequent invited speaker at academic campuses, churches, and retreats.
Prior to entering the academy, Elisabeth worked as an attorney, in private equity, and as a campus minister for graduate students and faculty. She is currently a Research Fellow for the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. She has also been a Pedagogy Fellow at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.

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