Judith Becker
is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History of Christianity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include the ecumenical movement, missions, and the Reformation. Among her publications are Conversio im Wandel: Basler Missionare zwischen Europa und Südindien und die Ausbildung einer Kontaktreligiosität (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015) and European Missions in Contact Zones. Transformation through Interaction in a (Post-)Colonial World (ed., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).
Patrick Cabanel
is directeur d’études at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE-PSL, Paris). He works on the history of French Protestantism since the sixteenth century, the French Righteous, and the relationship between Jewish and Protestant minorities, especially in the 19th century. His monographs include Histoire des Justes en France (Armand Colin, 2012); Histoire des protestants en France, XVIe–XXIe siècle (Fayard, 2012); Le droit de croire. La France et ses minorités religieuses, XVIe–XXIe siècle (Passés composés, 2024).
Benjamin L. Hartley
is Professor of Contextual Education, Mission, and United Methodist Studies at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). Previously, he has served on the faculties at Seattle Pacific University, George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and Palmer Theological Seminary, the Seminary of Eastern University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as president of the American Society of Missiology in 2024. His publications include Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism & Social Reform in Boston, 1860–1910 (Univ. of Hampshire Press, 2011) and, more recently, “Missions,” a chapter about 18th century missions in The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism (2022).
Noriko K. Ishii
is Professor of U.S. History and Chair in the Department of English Studies and Director of the Institute of American and Canadian Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. She served as a visiting scholar at the American Studies Program at Harvard University from May 2019 to March 2020. She is the author of American Women Missionaries at Kobe College: New Dimensions in Gender, 1873–1909 (Routledge, 2004) and works currently on a study of women’s role in the transnational Protestant ecumenical movement and the development of Christian cosmopolitanism in the context of U.S.-Japan relations.
was Professor at the University of Munich (LMU), holding the Chair for Early and Global History of Christianity, and Senior Fellow in the history department at the University of Frankfurt. He has held multiple guest professorships in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, India and Sri Lanka), Africa (South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda) and Europe (Switzerland, UK). He publishes widely on World Christianity and the history of Christianity in the Global South. His books include Polycentric Structures in the History of World Christianity (Harrassowitz, 2014). His most recent publications are A Short History of Christianity Beyond the West: Asia, Africa and Latin America 1450–2000 (Brill, 2024) and Early South-South Links in the History of World Christianity (16th to early 19th cent.) (Harrassowitz, 2024).
Yeonseung Lee
is a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University School of Theology. She teaches church history and is the church history department coordinator of the Korean Program at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. A former visiting professor at Seoul Theological University, she founded the academic journal World Christianity and the Fourfold Gospel. Her essays include “Korean Christianity and Civic Diplomacy under the Constraints of Colonial Korea,” Journal of the Church History Society in Korea, 2019, and “Millennial Responses in North Korea toward the Changing Currents of Christianity in the 1980s: An Analysis of Newspapers Rodong Ch’ŏngnyŏn (Young Laborers),” ibid., 2022.
Frieder Ludwig
is Professor of Global Studies and Religion at VID Specialized University in Stavanger. His research interests include Intercultural Theology and Missiology; Christianity, Islam and traditional religions in Africa and migration. Among his recent publications he edited The First World War as a Turning Point: The Impact of the Years 1914–1918 on Church and Mission (LIT, 2020). From 2020–2023, he led the research project “Connected Histories—Contested Values. World Lutheranism and Decolonisation: Processes of Transloyalties, 1919–1970” at VID Specialized University in Stavanger. The results will be published in the two books, Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Interwar Period: 1919–1939 and Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War: 1945–1970, in the “Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations” series by Routledge in 2025.
is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow. One of her research interests is the history of the ecumenical movement in the early twentieth century, in particular the influence of George Bell and the ecumenical aspects of the 1920 Lambeth Conference. She is involved in current Anglican ecumenical work and serves on several ecumenical dialogues. Among her publications are “Mission, Reunion and the Anglican Communion: the ‘Appeal to All Christian People’ and approaches to ecclesial unity at the 1920 Lambeth Conference,” Ecclesiology, 2020; and “Lambeth 1920: the Appeal to All Christian People, an Account by G.K.A. Bell and the Redactions of the Appeal.” In From the Reformation to the Permissive Society: a Miscellany in Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Lambeth Palace Library, edited by M. Barber, et al. (Church of England Record Society, 2010).
Dana L. Robert
is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University School of Theology. Author of numerous publications, including Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and Faithful Friendships: Embracing Diversity in Christian Community (Eerdmans, 2019), she is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ellen Vea Rosnes
is Professor of intercultural communication and global studies at the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University. She holds a PhD in Literacy Studies from the University of Stavanger. Vea Rosnes is the project leader of Transloyalties in Citizenship Education (2023–2026) funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN). Her research focuses on mission and colonial education in Madagascar and South Africa during the 20th century. Another focus is citizenship education and intercultural competence. She published The Norwegian Mission’s Literacy Work in Colonial and Independent Madagascar (Routledge) in 2019 and was co-editing History through Narratives of Education in Africa (Brill) in 2024.
Sarah Scholl
has been a Professor at the University of Geneva since 2022. Previously, as a postdoctoral researcher at the EPHE, Paris, the University of Geneva, the University of Cambridge and the University Laval, Quebec, she worked on the history
David W. Scott
is a mission theologian for the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. He previously taught religion and leadership at Ripon College, Wisconsin, USA. He is the blogmaster for the scholarly blog http://www.umglobal.org/ and has written and co-edited several books, including Methodism and American Empire: Reflections on Decolonizing the Church (Abingdon, 2024) and The Practice of Mission in Global Methodism: Emerging Trends from Everywhere to Everywhere (Routledge, 2021).
Michael Snape
is Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University and is an ecumenical lay canon of Durham Cathedral. He has published widely on the religious experience of the two World Wars, and on the religious dimensions of military life in the English-speaking world. His books include A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2022); God and Uncle Sam: Religion and America’s Armed Forces in World War II (Boydell and Brewer, 2015), and God and the British soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars (Routledge, 2005).
John Thomas
is Assistant Professor of History at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam. His research has been on the history of Christian missions, and the role of religion in the formation of cultural and political identities in South Asia. His publications include Evangelising the Nation: Religion and the Formation of Naga Political Identity (Routledge, 2016).
John Wolffe
is Professor of Religious History at The Open University (UK). He has published extensively on the history of evangelicalism, anti-Catholicism and religious responses to death. His most recent book, Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2020.
Deanna Ferree Womack
is Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, USA. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern Christianity, Protestant missions in the Middle East, and Christian-Muslim relations. She is the author of Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community (Westminster John Knox, 2020), and Re-inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia (OUP forthcoming). She is the co-editor with Raimundo Barreto of Alterity and the Evasion of Justice: Explorations of the “Other” in World Christianity (Fortress 2023).
Yun Zhou
is a lecturer at the College of Asia and the Pacific in The Australian National University. Her research focuses on the history of Christianity in modern China. Her publications include “Divorcing the West: a Reinterpretation of Japanese Christians—anti-Western Thinking through the case of the Japanese YMCA from 1880–1945,” QUEST: Studies on Religion & Culture in Asia, 2018, “Rural Reform in Republican China: Christian Women, Print Media, and a Global Vision of Domesticity,” Modern China, 2023, and “From Human Suffering to Divine Love: the Christian Women’s Magazine Nü duo in Wartime China”, in Modern Chinese Theologies, vol. 1: Heritage and Prospect (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023).