Scholarly Network in Baptist Studies
The Baptist Studies Center for Research has contact with multiple faculty members, post-doctoral students, and current doctoral students with expertise and research interests in a variety of fields related to religion and Baptist studies. These researchers are divided below by categories of current work status, and information about each researcher can be found through the page links below. If you are a Baptist Studies scholar and wish to be added to the network list below, please contact Dr. Doug Weaver, Director of the Baptist Studies Center for Research or Yvette Garcia, Assistant for the BSCR.
Faculty Members -Baylor University Religion Department
Dr. Doug Weaver - Director - Baptist history; Pentecostal history
Dr. Rosalie Beck - Baptist history; Women in Christianity; Women in religion
Dr. Joe Coker - Baptist history; Religion in the American South; the Church and Prohibition
Dr. William Pitts (Retired) - Baptist history; New Religious Movements (NRM); William Rauschenbusch
ABD Doctoral Students
Yvette Garcia ( Baylor University) - Baptist History; Pentecostal History; Brownsville Revival
Alumni
João Chaves (Baptist University of the Americas) - Baptist history; Religion and the New Immigration; World Christianity
John Essick (Baptist Seminary of Kentucky)
Dr. Andrew Kim (Northern Seminary) - Baptist history; 20th century neo-evangelicalism and science
Bryan Maine (McLennan Community College) - Baptist History; Reformation History; the Place of Children in Religious History
Dr. Chris Moore (Catawba Valley Community College) - Baptist history; 19th Century US history; Religion in the American South; Civil War history
Dr. Courtney Pace (Memphis Seminary) - Baptist history; Civil Rights history; race, gender, and social justice in American religion
The Broader Network
Beth Allison Barr (Baylor University History Department)-Associate Professor of History and Graduate Program Director. Co-Director for the Baptist Scholars International Roundtable