Alister Chapman

Dr. Alister Chapman came to Westmont in 2004. He teaches courses in modern European history and the World History survey (HIS-010). Dr. Chapman was born in London and received all his formal education in England. He did his Ph.D. in modern British history at the University of Cambridge. In 2008, he won the Bruce and Adaline Bare Teacher of the Year Award in the Social Sciences. Alister is married to Margaret, and they have four children: Abigail, Lucy, James, and Abraham.

For Dr. Chapman's recent Huffington Post column, click here.

Education

B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., History, University of Cambridge

Select Publications

Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion, eds. Alister Chapman, John Coffey, and Brad S. Gregory (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009)

“Evangelical or Fundamentalist? The Case of John Stott,” in Evangelical and Fundamentalism: The Experience of the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century, eds. David Ceri Jones and David W. Bebbington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

“Intellectual History and Religion in Modern Britain,” in Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion , eds. Alister Chapman, John Coffey, and Brad S. Gregory (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009)

“Evangelical International Relations in the Post-Colonial World: The Lausanne Movement and the Challenge of Diversity, 1974-89, Missiology 37 ( 2009): 355-68

“Anglican Evangelicals and Revival, 1945-59,” in Revival and Resurgence in Christian History, eds. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008), 307-17

“Secularisation and the Ministry of John R. W. Stott at All Souls, Langham Place, 1950-70,” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56, no. 3 (2005): 496-513