Dana Robert Featured in Interview Series on History as Christian Vocation
Dr. Mark Hutchinson, Professor of History at Alphacrucis College (Sydney, Australia), has recently hosted a series of podcasts on the practice of history as a Christian vocation. So far, the interviewees include Mark Noll, Tim Larsen, Beth Allison Barr, Rick Kennedy, and BU CGCM Director, Dana Robert.
In her contribution to the series, Robert describes the ways faith and church-related commitments have been at work throughout the course of her intellectual trajectory. In this autobiographical account, she describes first learning about the impact of race and national origin on religious affiliation as she grew up attending school in rural Louisiana. Moving into a discussion of her academic historical work, she describes her experiences as one of the few early women missiologists, her specific sense of calling in writing American Women in Mission, her work for the United Methodist Church, and other ways that faith and historical study have intersected in her life.