Alan Jacobs, PhD

Dr. Alan Jacobs is The Jim and Sharon Harrod Endowed Chair of Christian Thought and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He began teaching at Baylor in 2013 and is a Resident Fellow of Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion. Prior to his time at Baylor, Dr. Jacobs taught at Wheaton College in Illinois for twenty-nine years. He earned a BA from the University of Alabama and a PhD from the University of Virginia. Dr. Jacobs is the author of many books, including The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography.