Randall J. Stephens

Randall J. Stephens is an author, editor, and historian of American religion. He is the editor of the "Journal of Southern Religion" [ [http://jsr.fsu.edu "Journal of Southern Religion"] ] and associate editor of "Historically Speaking" [ [http://www.bu.edu/historic/hs.html "Historically Speaking"] ] for Boston University. He is also a member of the Polkinghorne Society at Eastern Nazarene College [ [http://www.enc.edu/history/polk.html The Polkinghorne Society] ] in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he currently teaches in the History Department. [ [http://www.enc.edu/history/faculty.html ENC History Department Faculty] ] Stephens has been named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network (HNN). [ [http://hnn.us/roundup/49.html#54497] ] [ [http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2008/09/the-young-and-t.html] ]

Education

He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Florida, where his dissertation explored the roots of holiness and pentecostalism in the American South. It was selected as one of fifteen semifinalists for the Allan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in American history by the Society of American Historians. It also won the St. George Tucker Society's prize for best dissertation in Southern Studies and the University of Florida History Department’s Richard Milbauer dissertation award.

Stephens also holds a Master's in Theological Studies from Nazarene Theological Seminary and a Master's in History from Emporia State University.

Published works

Stephens is the author of "The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South", ["The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South", Harvard University Press, 2007 ISBN 0674026721] published by Harvard University Press. [ [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/STESPR.html Harvard Press & Reviews] . Stephens, in fact, is the first scholar associated with the Church of the Nazarene to publish with the Harvard University Press.] He is currently under contract with Harvard University Press for another book, co-authored with science-and-religion scholar Karl Giberson, titled "The Anointed: American Evangelical Experts", as well as "Recent Trends in Religious History", part of the "Historians in Conversation Series: Understanding the Past," with the University of South Carolina Press. He has authored chapters for volumes published by the University of Kentucky Press, Columbia University Press (the Bibliographic editor for "The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History"), [ [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/CGAH.HTM Columbia Guide to Religion in American History] ] the University of South Carolina Press, Cambridge University Press, the University of Florida Press, and the University of Alabama Press.

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.enc.edu/history/stephensCV.html Randall Stephens' CV]
* [http://www.tidalwavemagazine.com/ "Tidal Wave Magazine"]