Профессор Йельского университета. Специалист в области исследования христианства в Северной Америке.

Получил бакалаврскую степень в Calvin College. В 1972 г. - магистерскую степень в Kent State University.

В 1974 защитил докторскую диссертацию (PhD) в Kent State University.

В 1974-85 гг. преподавал в University of Connecticut

В 1986-90 гг. являлся профессором американской религиозной истории в Йельском университете.

С 1991 по настоящее время постоянный профессор Йельского университета.

Академические интересы: религиоведение, история христианства в Северное Америке

Избранная библиография

Монографии

"Remigration and Revival: Two Case Studies in the Social and Intellectual History of New England, l630-l745," Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, l974.

The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England, Oxford University Press, l986. Pulitzer Prize Nominee l986; Merle Curti Award Nominee, l986).

An Enemy Among Them, (co-authored with Deborah DeFord), Houghton Mifflin, l987.

Jonathan Edwards and the America Experience, (co-edited with Nathan Hatch) Oxford University Press, l988.

Jonathan Edwards, ed., Library of America, forthcoming.

The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism, Eerdmans Press, l99l. (Pulitzer Prize nominee, l99l; awarded Critic's Award for History.

Dictionary of Christianity in America, co-editor, Intervarsity Press, l990. (awarded "Book of the Year" award, Christianity Today, l990)

Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and The Representation of American Culture, (co-edited with Barbara Oberg), Oxford University Press, l993.

A Jonathan Edwards Reader, co-editor, Yale University Press, 1995.

New Directions in American Religious History (co-edited with Daryl Hart), Oxford University Press, 1997

Readings in American Religious History (co-edited with Jon Butler), Oxford University Press, l997

Religion and the American Civil War (co-edited with Charles Regan Wilson and Randall Miller). Oxford University Press, 1999.

The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 23, (co-edited with Nathan Hatch), Yale University Press, 2003.

Stories of Faith, Stories of America: Religion in United States History (with Randall Balmer and Grant Wacker), Oxford University Press, 2003.