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Mark Noll, is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Noll received his BA from Wheaton, his MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. After four years at Trinity College (IL), Dr. Noll was a member of the history faculty at Wheaton College from 1978 to 2006. Along with Dr. Nathan Hatch of the University of Notre Dame he laid the groundwork for what would eventually become the ISAE through a Lilly Endowment-supported conference on "The Bible in America" in 1979. Dr. Noll is one of the foremost scholars of American religion and has authored dozens of articles for scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Among the many books he has authored are The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (with Carolyn Nystrom, Baker, 2005), America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford, 2002), Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Baker, 1997), A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Eerdmans, 1992), The Search for Christian America (with Nathan Hatch and George Marsden, 1989), Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822 (Princeton, 1989), and Christians in the American Revolution (Christian U. Press, 1977). His book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994) was named Christianity Today's 1994 "Book of the Year." Additionally, he has edited a number of volumes in connection with various ISAE projects including God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 ( Oxford University Press, 2002), More Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History (with Larry Eskridge, Eerdmans, 2000), Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, The British Isles, and Beyond, 1700-1990 (with David Bebbington and George Rawlyk, Oxford, 1994), and Religion and American Politics (Oxford, 1989).

	Nathan O. Hatch, is the President of Wake Forest University and was for many years the head of the graduate school and Provost of the University of Notre Dame . A leading scholar of religion in the early American Republic, he is the author of numerous articles and the influential volume The Democratization of Christianity (Yale, 1991). Along with Mark Noll, Dr. Hatch is a co-founder of the ISAE.