Dana Robert

Dr. Robert is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Her research and teaching interests span mission history, World Christianity, and mission theology. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Missiology. An Editor of the journal Church History, she has been a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology, and Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany. Her books include Faithful Friendships: Embracing Diversity in Christian Community(2019); African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives, and Challenges (2018); Joy to the World!: Mission in the Age of Global Christianity (2010); Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (2009); Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914(2008); Christianity: A Social and Cultural History (co-author, 1997), and the now classic American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice (1997). She is on the Editorial Committee for the award-winning digital humanities project Dictionary of African Christian Biography and the Journal of African Christian Biography. Under her leadership, the Center for Global Christianity and Mission led the North American regional mission study for the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches, which resulted in a 2022 report and the 2023 co-edited volume Creative Collaborations: Case Studies of North American Missional Practices.  In addition to STH, she is a faculty member in African Studies. Robert received her BA from Louisiana State University and her MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.