John H. Wigger

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
area: U.S. social and cultural to 1865 history
office: 312 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-6019
email: wiggerj@missouri.edu

B.S. West Virginia University, 1981
M.A. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1989
M.A. University of Notre Dame, 1990
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 1994

Associate Professor Wigger's research interests focus on late colonial America and the American early republic, particularly the social and religious history of these periods.

Professor Wigger is currently writing a biography of Francis Asbury.

Selected Publications

Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, 1770-1820. Oxford University Press: New York, 1998; University of Illinois Press: Champaign, 2001.

Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture, co-edited with Nathan Hatch (Kingswood Books, 2001).

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Professor Wigger

book jacket
Taking Heaven by Storm

book jacket
Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture