Christopher H. Evans
Sallie Knowles Crozer Professor of Church History and Director of United Methodist Studies
A.B., Syracuse University
M.Div., Boston University
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Community Activities
Regularly preaches and teaches in numerous Rochester area churches.
Research Interests
American religious history; Wesleyan/Methodist studies; religion and popular culture; sociology of religion; theological ethics; religious biography.
Courses Taught
American Religious History; Apocalyptic Thought in American Religious History; Early and Medieval Church History; Life and Thought of John Wesley; United Methodist History and Theology; Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel; Faith, History, and Popular Cultures; Women and American Religion; The Protestant Reformation and its Legacy; Theology of Ministry (D. Min seminar); and Transformative Leadership in the CRCDS Tradition (D.Min.).
Recent Publications
The Kingdom is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch; The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball, Religion and American Culture (with William R. Herzog); and The Social Gospel Today.
Professional Associations
The American Academy of Religion; American Society of Church History; Organization of American Historians; and The Historical Society of the United Methodist Church
Denomination: United Methodist
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