Staff & Team

meet our team

Dr. Paul Gutacker

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Paul Gutacker serves as executive director of Brazos Fellows. Paul also lectures part-time in the History Department at Baylor University, where he received his Ph.D. in History. Additionally, he holds the Th.M. and MA in Theological Studies from Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.). His second book, coming in 2025 from Moody Publishers, invites emerging adults to take on a common rule of life. Paul, his wife Paige, and their children James, Marianne, and Matthew enjoy life in Waco, TX where they like to fish, go camping, and cheer on the Buffalo Bills.

Paige GutackeR

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Paige Gutacker serves as assistant director of Brazos Fellows and as a coach trainer for Fluxify. Paige holds an MA in Theological Studies from Regent College, a certificate in Spiritual Direction from Truett Seminary, and a professional life coaching credential. Her interests include spiritual formation, mentoring, caregiving, technology and the soul, the spirituality of food, vocation and decision-making, and hospitality. She enjoys attempting to impart baking skills to
her three enthusiastic young children.

rev. dr. jonathan kanary

CHAPLAIN & SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE

Jonathan Kanary serves as Chaplain and Scholar in Residence for Brazos Fellows and as Associate Priest at Christ Church Waco. He received his MDiv and STM from Nashotah House
Theological Seminary and the Ph.D. in English from Baylor University, where he is a Visiting Scholar in the Honors College. As a member of the Liturgy Task Force for the Anglican Church in North America, he helped revise the Book of Common Prayer (2019). Father Jonathan loves spending time with his wife Hannah, eating and laughing with friends, drinking hot tea, and reading children’s books aloud to adults.

board of advisors

Matthew Lee Anderson
Assistant Professor, Honors College, Baylor University

Hans Boersma
Saint Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology, Nashotah House

David Corey
Professor of Political Science, Baylor University

Elizabeth Corey
Honors Program Director, Associate Professor of Political Science, Baylor University

Nicholas Norman-Krause
Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Belmont University

Debbie Wallace
Spiritual Director, Christ Church Waco

Guest instructors

Dr. Charity Anderson
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University
Ph.D., St. Louis University

Dr. Matthew Lee Anderson
Assistant Professor, Honors College, Baylor University
Assistant Director, Baylor in Washington
D.Phil., Oxford
M.Phil., Oxford

Fr. Matthew Aughtry
Chaplain for Ministry in the Arts, Baylor University
Adjunct Professor in Film & Digital Media, Baylor University
M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary

Dr. Katie Calloway
Assistant Professor of English, Baylor University
Ph.D., University of British Columbia
M.A., Baylor University

Dr. David D. Corey
Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
M.A., Louisiana State University

Dr. Elizabeth Corey
Associate Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
M.A., Louisiana State University

Dr. Malcolm Foley
Director of Black Church Studies, Truett Theological Seminary
Special Advisor to the President for Equity and Campus Engagement, Baylor University
Ph.D., Religion, Baylor University
M.Div., Yale Divinity School

Dr. Julia D. Hejduk
Professor of Classics, Baylor University
Ph.D., Harvard University

Dr. Thomas S. Kidd
Research Professor of Church History, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Dr. Elizabeth Marvel
Academic Director, Global Action
Ph.D., Baylor University
M.A., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Dr. Angela Reed
Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of Spiritual Direction, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary
M.Div., University of Winnipeg

Dr. Richard Rankin Russell
Professor of English, Baylor University
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
M.A., University of North Carolina
M. Phil., University of Glasgow

Dr. Andrea L. Turpin
Associate Professor of History, Baylor University
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Dr. David Wilhite
Professor of Christian Theology, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
Ph.D., The University of St. Andrews
M.Div., Beeson Divinity School