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Staff & Advisors
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Edith Blumhofer, ISAE Director and Professor of History at Wheaton College, received her BA and MA from Hunter College in New York City and her Ph.D. from Harvard. She originally came to the Institute as a Project Director in 1987. Dr. Blumhofer served as ISAE director between 1993 and 1995, then spent time as a grant officer for the Religion Division of the Pew Charitable Trusts and as Administrative Director of Martin Marty's Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago. She returned to the ISAE as its director in 1999. Her areas of expertise include the history of Pentecostalism and the historic role of women in American evangelicalism. Her most recent book is Her Heart Can See (Eerdmans, 2005), a biography of hymn writer Fanny Crosby. Among her other published works are Restoring the Faith: the Assembly of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture (Illinois, 1993), Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister (Eerdmans, 1992), and Pentecost in My Soul: Explorations in the Meaning of Pentecostal Experience in the Assemblies of God (Gospel Publishing House, 1989). She is the co-editor of a number of volumes including Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism (with Russell Spittler and Grant Wacker, Illinois, 1999), editor of Religion, Politics, and the American Experience (University of Alabama Press, 2002). |
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Larry Eskridge, associate director of the ISAE and editor of the Evangelical Studies Bulletin, received his BA from Trinity College (IL) and his MA from the University of Maryland-College Park and his Ph.D. from the University of Stirling in Scotland. Dr. Eskridge joined the Institute in the role of Interim Administrator in 1988 and has served as its associate director since 1993. His primary working interest lies in the intersections between 20th-century evangelicalism, popular culture, and the mass media and he has published several articles and essays on aspects of this relationship. He also has an abiding interest in the overarching field of post-World War II socio-cultural history as well as the history of the Southern United States. He is currently working on a book on the Jesus People movement of the 1960s and 1970s to be published by Oxford University Press. With Mark Noll, he was co-editor of More Money, More Ministry: Evangelicals and Money in Recent North American History (Eerdmans, 2000). |
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Members of our board of advisors are . . .
Randall Balmer
Daniel Bays
James Bratt
Joel Carpenter
Darryl G. Hart
Michael Hamilton
Nathan O. Hatch
Richard T. Hughes
George Marsden
Mark Noll
Dana Robert
Harry S. Stout
Grant WackerRandall Balmer is Professor of Religion in Barnard College at Columbia University. A noted observer of the contemporary American religious scene, he is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the author of several books including Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America (Beacon, 1999), Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical's Lament (Basic Books, 2006), Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey Into the Evangelical Subculture in America (Oxford, 2000--3rd edition), and Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism (Westminster/John Knox, 2002). Professor Balmer's work has also been translated to television-his book "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" was made into a three-part video series which has aired on PBS (1992) and he was the guiding light behind a one-hour PBS documentary on Billy Graham (1994).
Daniel Bays, William Spoelhof Teacher-Scholar in History at Calvin College, is the former chairperson of the History Department at the University of Kansas. An expert in Chinese history and the history of missions to China, he is the editor of Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Stanford, 1996) and more recently edited with Grant Wacker the book The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History (University of Alabama, 2003).
James Bratt, is Professor of History at Calvin College and Director of Calvin's Center for Christian Scholarship. His areas of specialization include 19th-century American history and the history of Dutch Calvinism. He is the editor of Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Eerdmans, 1998) and author of Dutch Calvinism in Modern America: A History of a Conservative Subculture (Eerdmans, 1984) and Antirevivalism in Antebellum America: A Collection of Religious Voices (Rutgers, 2005).
Joel A. Carpenter, is the Director of the recently-created Nagel Center for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College. Between 1996 and 2006 he was the Provost of Calvin; prior to that he was the head Religion Officer for the Pew Charitable Trusts (1989-1996), and from 1983 to 1989 he served as the first Director of the ISAE (1983-1989). He is author of Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of Modern Fundamentalism, 1930-1946 (Oxford, 1998). Dr. Carpenter was also the co-editor of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism: A Guide to the Sources (Garland, 1990), served as the general editor for Garland Publishing's 16 volume Fundamentalism reprint series (1988), and with Lamin Sanneh he is the co-editor of The Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West and the World (Oxford, 2005).
Darryl G. Hart, is the director of academic projects and faculty development at Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Wilmington, Delaware. He was a former director of the ISAE (1989-1993), and he is the author of numerous articles dealing with 20th-century Presbyterian history and the role of religion in American culture. His books include Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham (Baker, 2004), That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century (Ivan R. Dees, 2002), and The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies and American Learning Since 1870 (Johns Hopkins, 2000).
Michael Hamilton, Assistant Professor of History at Seattle Pacific University was the former director of the Pew Evangelical Scholars Program based at the University of Notre Dame (1990-1999). Dr. Hamilton is the author of many articles related to contemporary American evangelicalism. He is currently working on revising his dissertation (a history of Wheaton College) for publication.
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.
Richard T. Hughes, Since July 2006 Richard Hughes has been the Senior Boyer Fellow at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. For nearly twenty years priot to that he was a member of the history faculty at Pepperdine University and also the Director of the Pepperdine Center for Faith and Learning. He is the author of The Vocation of a Christian Scholar: How Christian Life Can Sustain the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2005), Reclaiming a Heritage: Reflections on the Heart, Soul, and Future of Churches of Christ (Abilene Christian University Press, 2002), Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America (Eerdmans, 1996), and co-editor of Models For Christian Higher Education (Eerdmans, 1997), and Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America (Illinois, 1988).
George M. Marsden, is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame; his areas of expertise include the history of fundamentalism and American religious and intellectual history. Marsden recently recieved the Bancroft Prize awarded annually by Columbia University for his biography, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University Press, 2003). Among his other works are The Soul of the University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Non-belief (Oxford, 1994); Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Eerdmans, 1987), and Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 (Oxford, 1980). Dr. Marsden is the chair of the ISAE Advisory Committee.
Mark Noll, is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. 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. His book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994) was named Christianity Today's 1994 "Book of the Year." Among his more recent works are The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (North Carolina, 2006) and (with Carolyn Nystrom) Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (Baker, 2005).
Dana L. Robert, is the Truman Collins Professor of World Missions at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of missiology, missions history, and non-western church history. She is the author of Occupy Until I Come: A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World (Eerdmans, 2003), Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers: Missionary Women in the 20th Century (Orbis, 2002), and American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice (Mercer, 1996).
Harry S. Stout, Master of Berkeley College at Yale University and professor of American Religious History, is the General Project Editor for The Works of Jonathan Edwards at Yale Divinity School. Among his many published works are Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War (Penguin Books, 2007), The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Eerdmans, 1991) and The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (Oxford, 1986).
Grant Wacker, is an Associate Professor of the History of Religion in America at the Duke Divinity School. He has written extensively about the history of evangelicalism and Pentecostal Christianity. His book Heaven Below: Early Pentecostalism in American Culture was recently published by the Harvard University Press. Some of his other books include Religion in the 19th Century American Life (Oxford University Press Children's Books, 2000), and The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home, co-edited with Daniel Bays. Dr. Wacker is currently at work on a biography of Billy Graham.
