Wacker, Grant
| Position: | Professor of Church History |
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| Degrees: | B.A., Stanford University
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| Address: | Duke University Divinity School
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| Phone: | (919) 660-3462 | |||
| E-mail: | gwacker@div.duke.edu |
Biography
Grant Wacker, a well-known expert in American religion, joined the Divinity School faculty after teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977–1992.
Professor Wacker is the co-editor or author of six books, including “Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture.” He is working on an interpretive survey of religion in United States history with Randall Balmer and Harry S. Stout, to be published by Oxford University Press, and a cultural biography to be titled “Billy Graham and the American Moment.”
Professor Wacker, who is president of the American Society of Church History, has served as a senior editor of the quarterly journal, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture.