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Comprehensive Faculty Roster

The history of The Roberts Department of Christianity includes a number of variations in our name. Variously we have been a Department of Christianity, School of Christianity, and even a Theological Seminary. Depending upon the name of the department or school, there have been chairs and deans.

This roster of faculty names all who have taught in the department. Faculty are entered on the roster by first date of joining the faculty. Service as chair or dean is indicated in parentheses. Where appropriate the year in which a faculty member ceased teaching in the department is noted.

Adiel Sherwood 1840-1841
John L. Dagg 1844-1855
J. L. Reynolds 1845-1846
Nathaniel M. Crawford 1846-1856; 1858-1865
William Williams 1856-1859
Shaler G. Hillyer 1859-1862
Henry Holcombe Tucker 1868-1870
Archibald J. Battle 1872-1880
Sylvanus Landrum 1880-1881
James G. Ryals 1883-1892
George R. McCall 1892-1893 (Lecturer)
C. E. W. Dobbs 1892-1893 (Lecturer)
James H. Kilpatrick 1892-1893 (Lecturer)
F. C. McConnell 1892-1893 (Lecturer)
J. B. Gambrell 1893-1895
Bartow Davis Ragsdale 1896-1904; 1918-1928
Eldred John Forrester 1904-1918
Claudius Lamar McGinty 1918-1925 (Dean, 1919-1926)
Rufus Washington Weaver 1918-1928
William Edmund Farrar 1919-1925
William Campbell Hunter 1919
Frank Hartwell Leavell 1919-1921
Emil Francis George Saverio 1919
Peyton Jacob 1919-1920
Andrew Philip Montague 1919-1920; 1921-1928
Benjamin Clark Holtzclaw 1919-1920; 1926-1928
James Lee Railey 1920-1926
John D. Mell 1920-1921; 1922-1923 
John Green Harrison 1921-1934 (Dean, 1929-1932; Chair, 1932-1934)
Charles Bray Williams 1921-1925
Albert Henry Newman 1921-1928
Edward Powell Lee 1922-1924
Lucius McLendon Polhill 1922-1924
Lowell Taylor Wallace 1922-1924
Gower Latimer 1922-1928
John F. Carter 1923-1924
M. Virginia Garner 1923-1925
George McIntosh Sparks 1923-1924
Henry Lewis Batts 1923-1928; 1945-1964 (Chair, 1957-1964)
Charles Wesley Pope 1924-1925
John H. Barber 1924-1926
Edgar Estes Folk 1924-1925
R. R. Moore 1924-1925
Claude Milton Coalson 1924-1925
A. G. Turk 1924-1925
Charles C. Sanders 1925-1928
John Franklin Carter 1925-1928
Charles Ernest Rodgers 1925-1928
Gainer E. Bryan 1925-1928
John Fred Eden, Jr. 1926-1927
John William Jent 1926-1928 (Dean, 1926-1928)
John Fred Eden, Jr. 1926-1928
Frank Cochran 1926-1928
Gainer E. Bryan 1926-1928
Charles W. Henderson 1926-1928
Park Harris Anderson, Sr. 1927-1929 (Dean, 1928-1929)
John D. Freeman 1928-1929; 1932-1939
John Davis Blair 1929-1931
Edwin M. Poteat 1931-1933
John Green Harrison 1932-1934 (Chair 1932-1934)
William Arnold Keel 1934-1939 (Chair 1934-1939)
Kerr Boyce Tupper 1936-1939
Hansford D. Johnson 1939-1957 (Chair 1939-1957)
Robert Earle Anthony 1939-1941
Hugh A. Brimm 1945-1946
Lois Leone Bates 1945-1950
Theron Douglas Price 1945-1948
Das Kelley Barnett 1947-1952
Pope Alexander Duncan 1948-1949
George McLeod Bryan 1949-1956
Harold Lynn McManus 1949-1986 (Chair 1964-1984)
Edwin Dargan Johnston 1950-1990 
Charles Ray Brewster 1952-1995
Francis Robert Otto 1956-1988
Wilfred Kenneth Cauthen 1957-1961
Joseph Millard Hendricks 1959-2000
Thomas Joseph Holmes 1960-1968
James Young Holloway 1962-1965
Carl Wayne Davenport 1965-1966
James Lloyd Clegg, Jr. 1960-1961; 1965-1968
John Bunyan Sheppard 1966-1988 
Algirdas Jurenas 1966-1967
James Lee Crenshaw 1966-1971
James Lamar Cox 1966-1971
Park Harris Anderson, Jr. 1966-1978
Howard Peterson Giddens 1968-1986
Allen Beza Comish 1978-1982
Albert Lindsey Cardwell 1978-1988
Watson Early Mills 1979-2001
Tucker Noyes Callaway 1980-1982, 1984-1985 as Missionary-in-Residence
Rollin Stely Armour 1980-1999
James Leonard Burnham 1981-1982 Missionary-In-Residence 
Charles L. Whaley 1982-1983 Missionary-In-Residence 
Walter Byron Shurden 1983-2007 (Chair 1984-2001)
Hugh Thomas McKinley 1983-1984 Missionary-In-Residence 
Margaret Dee Bratcher 1985-present
Richard Francis Wilson 1988-present (Chair 2001-present)
Robert Scott Nash 1996-present
David Gregory Sapp 1999-2000; 2001-2006
Darlene Kaye Flaming 1999-present
Janell Anne Cook Johnson 2001-present
Paul Allen Lewis 2002-present
Bryan J. Whitfield 2002-present
Craig McMahan 2005-present
Olu Quaity Menjay 2009-present