Participants: History

Mark Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Mark Noll (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University) came to Notre Dame in 2006, after 27 years at Wheaton College as a member of the history and theology departments. His writings on the topic of religion and politics, such as The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, have won Noll academic aclaim. In 2005, Noll was named by Time Magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America.

George Marsden preceded Mark Noll as the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 1992. George Marsden (Ph.D. Yale University) previously taught at Calvin College (1965-1986) and Duke University (1986-1992). As a historian and a theologian, he has written extensively on American evangelicalism and the role of Christianity in American higher education.

Joel Carpenter (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is the Director for the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College. He is the former Provost of Calvin College, the former Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, and the former Director of the Religion Program of the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia.

Curtis Evans (Ph.D. Harvard University) is currently Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Curtis Evans is an American religious historian. His teaching interests include African American religion, the intersection of race and religion in American history, and churches and the problem of social and political reform.