Manchester Wesley Research Centre

Honorary Fellows

Current Honorary Fellows of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre

Honorary fellows are elected from amongst established scholars in a field relevant to the interests of the Centre who support the aims of the Centre and wish to be part of the Centre's work from time to time.

Paul M. Bassett, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity, Nazarene Theological Seminary.

David Bebbington, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.Soc., Professor of History, University of Stirling.

John H. Y. Briggs, M.A., F.R.Hist.Soc., Senior Research Fellow in Church History and Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford.

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

Alex Deasley, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Nazarene Theological Seminary. 

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

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

Crawford Gribben, Ph.D., Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Print Culture in the School of English and the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin

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

Bruce Hindmarsh, D.Phil., James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.

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

Mark H. Mann, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Theology, Director of the Wesleyan Center for 21st Century Studies and Point Loma Press, Point Loma Nazarene University. 

I. Howard Marshall, Ph.D., D.D., Emeritus Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Honorary Research Professor, University of Aberdeen.

Kenneth G. C. Newport, D.Phil., Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Academic Development) and Professor of Christian Thought, Liverpool Hope University.

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

Isabel Rivers, Ph.D., Research Professor, Queen Mary, University of London and Co-Director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies.

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

Andrew F. Walls, D.D., Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh and Professor of the History of Mission at Liverpool Hope University.

John D. Walsh, Ph.D. (Cantab.), Emeritus Fellow Jesus College, Oxford.

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

Martin Wellings, M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.Soc.