Associate Professor of Religion

B.A. Davidson College
M.Div.Yale Divinity School
Ph.D. Duke University

Prof. Wills teaches courses in American religion and culture, specializing in nineteenth-century women’s religious activism. Her research interests also include gender and religion, politics and religion, popular religious practice, civil religion, African-American religious traditions, and religious memoir. A regular book reviewer for The Christian Century, Prof. Wills has also recently published articles on Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emma Willard in The Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, ed. Mark Hanley and Roy Domenico (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006). She is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. 

To contact:

Davidson College
Religion Department
Chambers 2168
Box 7063
Davidson NC  28035-7063

phone 704-894-2306
fax 704-894-2005
E-Mail: anwills@davidson.edu