Professor Emeritus

Research and Teaching Fields: American social and intellectual history; American religious history

Education:

• B.A., David Lipscomb College, 1954
• M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1958
• Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1962

UAB Service, 1970-1981

• 1970-1974: Chair, History Department
• 1976-1981: University Scholar in History

Select Publications

• White Sects and Black Men in the Recent South. Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
• All Things Are Possible: Healings and Charismatic Revivalism in Modern America. Indiana University Press, 1975.
• Pat Robertson: A Life and Legacy. Harper and Row, 1977.
• Oral Roberts: An American Life. Indiana University Press, 1985.

Select Presentations

• “Catholic Attitudes Toward Left-Wing Protestants in America, 1945-1965,” American Catholic Historical Society, Washington, DC, 1976.
• “Independent Ministers and the Pentecostal Revival,” Conference on Evangelical Awakenings, Regent’s Park College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1978.

Select Grants and Fellowships

• Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Allahabad, India, 1976-1977.
• Center for the Study of American Catholicism, 1978.
• Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, 1980.

Select Honors

• United States Information Agency Distinguished Lecturer, Dacca University (India), 1977
• Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lecturer, University of Arkansas, 1984
• Phi Alpha Theta