About the Center

Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition
Duke Divinity School
Box 90968
Durham, NC 27708-0968
dcastelo@div.duke.edu

The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition has been a source of internationally acclaimed research and support for Methodist and Wesleyan studies since 1979. The center offers courses for both Course of Study and Divinity students, provides access to outstanding research resources for students and scholars of the broad Wesleyan tradition, and supports the production of critical editions of the texts of John and Charles Wesley in print and online formats.

The center also sponsors a range of events that aim to cultivate and advance the field of Wesleyan Methodist studies.

Duke Divinity School Faculty Fellows

The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition is constituted of Duke Divinity faculty and associates within the Wesleyan tradition who devote some portion of their teaching or scholarship to topics relating to the tradition, as well as staff who help lead our educational outreach, and invited research fellows.

Daniel Castelo

Associate Dean for Academic Formation, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies

Kenneth Carder

Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Christian Ministry

Kenneth H. Carter

Bishop-in-Residence; Consulting Faculty

Jung Choi

Associate Dean for Global and Intercultural Formation; Director, Asian House of Studies; Administrative Faculty

Edgardo Colón-Emeric

Dean of Duke Divinity School; Ruth and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry

Valerie Cooper

Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies

Frederick Edie

Associate Professor of the Practice of Christian Education

W. Stephen Gunter

Research Professor Emeritus of Evangelism and Wesleyan Studies

Amy Laura Hall

Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

Richard Heitzenrater

William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Church History and Wesley Studies

Sangwoo Kim

Associate Dean for Vocational Formation; Senior Director of the Methodist House; Administrative Faculty

Randy L. Maddox

William Kellon Quick Professor Emeritus of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies

Lester Ruth

Research Professor of Christian Worship

J. Warren Smith

Professor of Historical Theology, Director of the Th.D. Program

Brent A. Strawn

D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament; Professor of Law

Alma Tinoco Ruiz

Royce and Jane Reynolds Assistant Professor of the Practice of Homiletics and Evangelism, Director of the Hispanic House of Studies, and Foundation For Evangelism Fellow