Bryan M. Ellrod has served as the University’s Director of Pre-Law in the Office of Academic Advising since 2023. In that role, he supports students and recent alumni as they explore their interest in pursuing the legal profession. Dr. Ellrod completed his PhD in the Ethics and Society course of study at Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion. His research explores questions of membership, identity, and responsibility at the intersections of religion, ethics, law, and politics. Dr. Ellrod has also published on ethical pedagogy, as well as ethics and aesthetics. He is the author of Can These Bones Live?: A Political Theology for the US-Mexico Borderlands (DeGruyter Brill, 2025).