Honorary Fellows

Honorary Fellows are established scholars who have made a significant contribution to scholarship, support the aims of the Centre, and maintain an ongoing interest in the work of the MWRC.

Kimberly Alexander, Ph.D., Faculty and Director/Developer for the online program, Ramp School of Ministry.

Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Ph.D., President and Baëta-Grau Professorial Chair of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology of Trinity Theological College (Legon, Ghana)

David Bebbington, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., F.Eccles.H.S., F.R.S.E., Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling.

Ted A. Campbell, Ph.D., Albert C. Outler Professor of Church History, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Kenneth J. Collins, Ph.D., Professor of Historical Theology and Wesley Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary.

Allan Coppedge, Ph.D., Emeritus Ralph Waldo Beeson Chair of Christian Theology, Asbury Theological Seminary.

Joanna Cruickshank, Ph.D., Lecturer, School of History Heritage and Society, Deakin University.

Christopher H. Evans, Ph.D., Professor of History of Christianity and Methodist Studies, Boston University School of Theology

Peter Forsaith, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., Research Fellow, The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History.

William Gibson, Ph.D., D.Litt., F.R.Hist.S., FSA, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.

Jeremy Gregory, D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S., Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts and Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Nottingham.

Crawford Gribben, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., Professor of Early Modern British History, Queen's University Belfast.

W. Stephen Gunter, Ph.D., Research Professor Emeritus of Evangelism and Wesleyan Studies, Duke Divinity School.

David Sang-Ehil Han, Ph.D., Vice President for Academics, Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Theology and Spirituality, and Ray H. Hughes Sr. Professor of Evangelism, Pentecostal Theological Seminary

Richard P. Heitzenrater, Ph.D., L.H.D., D.D., William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Church History and Wesley Studies, Duke Divinity School.

Bruce Hindmarsh, D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S., James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity, Regent College, Vancouver.

Morna Hooker, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt., D.D., Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity Emerita, University of Cambridge and Life Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge.

David Ceri Jones, Ph.D., Reader in Welsh and Atlantic History, Aberystwyth University.

Tim Macquiban, Ph.D., Past Co-Chair Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies and member of the Archives and Records Advisory group of the Methodist Heritage Committee.

Randy Maddox, Ph.D., William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Theology and Methodist Studies, Duke University Divinity School. 

Mark H. Mann, Ph.D., Professor of Theology and Director of the Honors Scholars Program at Point Loma Nazarene University.

†I. Howard Marshall, (1934-2015) Ph.D., D.D., Emeritus Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Honorary Research Professor, University of Aberdeen.

Kenneth G. C. Newport, D.Phil., D.D., Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Liverpool Hope University.

Peter Nockles, Ph.D., Honorary Research Fellow, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester; Retired Librarian, Rare Books & Maps, and Methodist Collections, Special Collections, The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.

Clive Murray Norris, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.

Glen O'Brien, Ph.D., Research Coordinator and Lecturer, Eva Burrows College, in the University of Divinity.

Priscilla Pope-Levison, Ph.D., Associate Dean for External Programs and Professor of Ministerial Studies, Southern Methodist University.

Henry D. Rack, D.Phil., Formerly Bishop Fraser Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, University of Manchester. 

David Rainey, Ph.D., Formerly Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ph.D. Supervisor, Nazarene Theological College.

Ian Randall, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide

Isabel Rivers, Ph.D., Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture, Queen Mary University of London

Calvin Samuel, Ph.D., Methodist Minister, Chelmsford, Essex.

Ulrike Schuler, Ph.D., Professor of Church History, Methodism, and Ecumenism, Reutlingen School of Theology (Germany)

Maxine Walker, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University and former Director of the Wesleyan Center for 21st Century Studies.

Ralph Waller, Ph.D., Principal of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, Director of the Farmington Institute and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford.

†Andrew F. Walls (1928-2021), D.D., Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh and Professor of the History of Mission at Liverpool Hope University.

†John D. Walsh (1927-2022) Ph.D., Emeritus Fellow Jesus College, University of Oxford.

†W. R. Ward (1925-2010), D.Phil. (Oxford), Hon. D. Theol (Basel), FBA, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at University of Durham.

Martin Wellings, M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S., Superintendent Minister of the Barnet & Queensbury Circuit.

Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), Professor of Worship at Boston University School of Theology.

Eryn White, B.A., Ph.D., Reader in History, Aberystwyth University.

Frances Young, Ph.D., Emerita Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham.