Past Presidents of the American Society of Church History

2023 Jonathan Ebel (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

2021/2022 Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania)

2020 Daniel Ramírez (Claremont Graduate University)

2019 Paul Lim (Vanderbilt University)

2018 Ralph Keen (University of Illinois, Chicago)

2017 Candy Gunther Brown (Indiana University, Bloomington)

2016 Ron Rittgers (Valparaiso University)

2015 Margaret Bendroth (Congregational Library)

2014 Thomas Noble (University of Notre Dame)

2013 Bruce Hindmarsh (Regent College)

2012 Laurie Maffly-Kipp (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

2011 Barbara Newman (Northwestern University)

2010 Richard Heitzenrater (Duke University)

2009 Charles Lippy (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

2008 Grant Wacker (Duke University)

2007 John Van Engen (University of Notre Dame)

2006 Jan Shipps (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)

2005 Mark A. Noll (University of Notre Dame)

2004 Dennis C. Dickerson (Vanderbilt University)

2003 Dale Johnson (Vanderbilt University)

2002 E. Brooks Holifield (Emory University)

2001 Amanda Porterfield (Florida State University)

2000 Hans Hillerbrand (Duke University)

1999 Ronald Numbers (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

1998 Peter Williams (Miami University)

1997 Richard Kieckhefer

1996 Barbara Brown Zikmund (Hartford Seminary)

1995 Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago Divinity School)

1994 Stephen J. Stein (Indiana University)

1993 Nathan O. Hatch (University of Notre Dame)

1992 George M. Marsden (Duke University/University of Notre Dame)

1991 Richard Greaves

1990 Timothy L. Smith (Johns Hopkins University)

1989 Elizabeth Clark (Duke University)

1988 William Courtenay

1987 Jay Dolan (University of Notre Dame)

1986 Winton Solberg

1985 David Steinmetz (Duke University)

1984 Henry W. Bowden (Rutgers University)

1983 Jane Dempsey Douglass (Claremont School of Theology)

1982 Clarence C. Goen

1981 William R. Hutchison (Harvard University)

1980 Robert Kingdon

1979 Brian Gerrish

1978 Edwin Gaustad (University of California, Riverside)

1977 Lewis Spitz

1976 John F. Wilson (Princeton University)

1975 Sydney Ahlstrom (Yale University)

1974 Clyde Manschreck (Chicago Theological Seminary)

1973 William Clebsch

1972 Carl Bangs (Nazarene Theological Seminary)

1971 Martin Marty (University of Chicago Divinity School)

1970 Robert Grant (University of Chicago Divinity School)

1969 John T. Ellis

1968 Elwyn Smith

1967 Richard Cameron

1966 John Van Rohr (Pacific School of Religion)

1965 Jaroslav J. Pelikan (Yale University)

1964 Albert C. Outler (Southern Methodist University)

1963 Raymond W. Albright

1962 Lefferts A. Loetscher (Princeton Theological Seminary)

1961 Harold J. Grimm

1960 Jerald C. Brauer (University of Chicago)

1959 Robert T. Handy (Union Theological Seminary)

1958 George H. Williams (Harvard University)

1957 H. Shelton Smith (Duke University)

1956 Quirinus Breen

1955 Leonard J. Trinterud

1954 Carl E. Schneider (Eden Theological Seminary)

1953 Sidney E. Mead (University of Iowa)

1952 Sandford Fleming

1951 Ray C. Petry (Duke University)

1950 James Hastings Nichols

1949 Massey H. Shepherd

1948 Winthrop S. Hudson

1947 Ernest G. Schwiebert

1946 Matthew Spinka (Hartford Seminary Foundation)

1945 Kenneth Scott Latourette (Yale University)

1944 Percy V. Norwood

1943 Harold S. Bender

1942 Edward Rochie Hardy, Jr.

1941 F. W. Buckler

1940 Roland H. Bainton (Yale University)

1939 Charles Lyttle

1938 Reuben E. E. Harkness

1937 Herbert Wallace Schneider

1936 Wilhelm Pauck (University of Chicago Divinity School)

1935 John Thomas McNeill

1934 Frederick William Loetscher (Princeton University)

1933 Conrad Henry Moehlman

1932 William Warren Sweet (University of Chicago Divinity School)

1931 Abdel Ross Wentz

1930 William S. Schermerhorn

1929 Edward Strong Worcester

1928 Winfred Ernest Garrison

1927 George Warren Richards

1926 William Walker Rockwell

1925 Shirley Jackson Case

1924 Henry James Weber

1923 James Coffin Stout

1922 William Nathaniel Schwarze

1921 Ephraim Emerton

1920 Robert Hastings Nichols

1919 George Edwin Horr

1918 Henry Bradford Washburn

1917 David Schley Schaff

1916 Edward Payson Johnson

1915 John A. Faulkner

1914 James I. Good (Lancaster Theological Seminary)

1913 Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr.

1912 Samuel Macauley Jackson

1911 Edward T. Corwin

1910 Arthur Cushman McGiffert (Union Theological Seminary)

1909 Francis A. Christie

1908 Henry Eyster Jacobs

1907 Williston Walker

1896 George Park Fisher

1894-95 John Fletcher Hurst

1888-93 Philip Schaff (Union Theological Seminary)