Manchester Wesley Research Centre (MWRC) is pleased to announce that Professor David Bundy will serve as Interim Director of the MWRC for the 2024-25 academic year.
Bundy is a specialist in Methodist, Holiness, and Pentecostal history, as well as on early Asian and East African Christianities. He has extensive international experience, having
lectured and taught courses in several dozen countries. He has served as librarian and historian at Asbury Theological Seminary (1985-90), Christian Theological Seminary (1991-2002), and as Associate Provost for Library and Information Technology and Associate Professor of History at Fuller Theological Seminary (2002-11). He received his BA from Seattle Pacific University, MDiv and ThM from Asbury Theological Seminary, Licentiate in Oriental Philology and History at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and the PhD from Uppsala University.
He has been associated with the MWRC for nearly a decade since being a Visiting Research Fellow in 2015, researching ‘The British Roots of the Korean and Japanese Holiness Churches’. Since 2017 he has been formally involved with the MWRC as Associate Director. Bundy has helped expand the Centre’s scholarly networks and activities, including the establishment of the Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements book series.
As he assumes this role from 1 August 2024, we look forward to the developments that Professor David Bundy’s leadership will bring to the MWRC.
The MWRC is a partnership of institutions and a community of scholars working together to promote research in the Methodist, Wesleyan, Evangelical, Holiness, and Pentecostal traditions. It serves as a resource for students, scholars, and the church, particularly those at the eighteen MWRC partner institutions.
