Joel Carpenter, Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College, holds a doctorate in history from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his current position Joel was provost at Calvin College between 1996 and 2006 and before that the director of the religion program at Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia. He has taught at Calvin, Trinity International University, and Wheaton College. Carpenter’s academic specialty is American religious history but his research interests expand to include world Christianity. His publications include Making Higher Education Christian: The History and Mission of Evangelical Colleges in America, co-edited with Kenneth Shipps (Eerdmans, 1987), Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of Modern Fundamentalism, 1930-1946 (Oxford, 1998), and The Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West and the World, co-edited with Lamin Sanneh (Oxford, 2005).
