Bryan Ellrod
Bryan Ellrod is the Director of Pre-Law in the Office of Academic Advising, and was most recently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Pre-Law in the Program for Leadership and Character. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion, as well as an M.Div. and Th.M. from the Candler School of Theology. He holds a B.A. degree with dual majors in Religion and Philosophy from Florida Southern College.
Bryan’s research explores questions of membership, identity, and responsibility at the intersections of politics, law, and religion. His dissertation develops the ethical and political implications of becoming “neighbors” to those who have lost their lives crossing through the US-Mexico borderlands, arguing for the adoption of an ethical subjectivity constituted by the demand of the excluded other and a politics of responsibility for the lives that projects of national self-determination cast aside. Throughout this study, Bryan interrogates the law of migration and its function in forming national identities and constructing the ethical relationships between insiders and outsiders, members and non-members, “citizens” and “aliens.” Bryan has also published on ethics pedagogy and is excited to join a team that joins preparation for the study of law with character education. He is committed to advising Wake Forest’s pre-law students as they discern their vocations and seeks to develop curricular and co-curricular programming that invites students to explore questions of virtue.
