Miles S. Mullin, II, who grew up in the Rio Grand Valley, has been teaching at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's J. Dalton Havard School for Theological Studies in Houston, Texas since 2005.  He was educated at the University of Virginia, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Vanderbilt University where he focused on North American Religious History.  He recently completed his dissertation on the development of northern evangelical social concern in the immediate Post World War II period.  His primary research centers on the history of evangelicalism in the United States after World War II, with secondary historical interests in African American Religion and the Baptist Heritage.

In his free time, Miles enjoys any time he can spend with his wife and two boys.  He thinks that coffee (black) is a food group and enjoys hiking, college football, reading all kinds of fiction, and bluegrass music.  His favorite novel is Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Alison Krauss & Union Station currently reign as his favorite band.  He believes that once a year, every Christian should read Athanasius' De Incarnatione.  Although he likes "the whole Bible a lot," the gospel of John and the Psalms are his favorite parts.

Education

• Ph.D., Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2009
• M.A., Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2006
• M.Div.BL, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2001
• B.A., Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1995

 
Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor of Church History, J. Dalton Havard School for Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Houston, TX), 2005-Present
• Coordinator of Spiritual Formation Classes, J. Dalton Havard School for Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Houston, TX), 2006-Present
• Reference Desk Assistant/Evening & Weekend Supervisor, Vanderbilt Divinity School Library 2003-2005
• Teaching Fellow, Vanderbilt Divinity School:  Formation of the Catholic Tradition (Fall 2002):  History of Religion in America (Spring 2004)
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University:  Introduction to Islam (Spring 2003)
• Research Assistant, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2001-02

 
Publications/Research Projects 

• Dissertation: "Postwar Evangelical Social Concern: Evangelical Identity and the Modes and Limits of Social Engagement, 1945-1960"
• Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization (Blackwell, Forthcoming 2010).  ARTICLES: Bill Bright; Born Again; Carl F.H. Henry; Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Southern Baptist Convention
• "Version, Tyndale's" in The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 5, S-Z (Abingdon Press, 2009).
• BOOK REVIEWS:
  • Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South by Steven P. Miller.  Forthcoming in Fides et Historia
  • C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University by A. Donald MacLeod.  ISAE News @ http://isae.wheaton.edu/2010/01/22/c-stacey-woods-and-the-evangelical-rediscovery-of-the-university.  Posted February 10, 2010.
  • Review Essay on several new histories of Christianity.  Southwestern Journal of Theology.  51:1 (Fall 2008)
  • God is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself by John Piper.  Southwestern Journal of Theology 41:2 (Spring 2007).
  • The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody by David Bebbington.  Fides et Historia 38:2 (Summer-Autumn 2006).
  • The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movements by Douglas A. Sweeney.  Fides et Historia 37:2/38:1 (Summer-Fall 2005/Winter-Spring 2006).
  • The American Church Experience: A Concise History by Thomas A. Askew & Richard V. Pierard.  Fides et Historia 37:1 (Spring-Winter 2005).
• “The Early Theology of James Cone.”  The AME Church Review 119 (April-June 2003), 106-110.
• “A Critical Assessment of the Filioque,” Faith & Mission 17/3 (Summer 2000), 30-39.
• Collator for the International Greek New Testament Project, Fall 2000.

 
Presentations 

• “Integrated Worship as Symbol: Differing Interpretations of the Significance of Integrated Worship at First Baptist Church, Birmingham, on Easter Sunday, 1963,” Southeastern Regional Meeting of the AAR.  Atlanta, GA. (March 5-7, 2004).
• Invited Panelist, “Leading Effective Discussions,” Teaching of Religion Class.  Graduate Department Religion, Vanderbilt University (Spring 2003).
• “Integrated Worship as Symbol.”  The Scholars Series at Christ the King Catholic Church, Nashville, TN.  (March 26, 2002).

 
Honors 

• Received "Honors" (his department's highest appellation) on his Doctoral Examinations, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2005
• Graduate Student Fellowship, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2001-05
• Full Tuition Scholarship, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, 2001-05
• Graduate School Travel Grant, Vanderbilt University, March 2004
• S.L. Stealey Church History Award, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, May 2001

 
Professional Memberships

• American Academy of Religion
• American Society of Church History
• Baptist History & Heritage Society

Church Membership

• Heritage Park Baptist Church, Webster, Texas

Service in the Local Church

• Teacher, Adult Sunday School, Heritage Park Baptist Church, 2009-Present
• AWANA Leader, Truth & Training, Heritage Park Baptist Church, 2008-Present
• Disciple Now, "Prayer:  The Big Picture," First Baptist Church Brazoria, February 2010
• Supply Preaching, 2006-Present
• Finance Committee Member, Heritage Park Baptist Church, 2008-2010
• Co-Teacher, Adult Sunday School, Heritage Park Baptist Church, 2008-2009
• Substitute Teacher, Adult Sunday School, Heritage Park Baptist Church, 2007-2008
• Extended Session (4's and 5's), Heritage Park Baptist Church, 2007-2009
• PULSE Bible Teacher (1st-6th grade), Heritage Park Baptist Church, 2007-2008

Personal

• Spouse:  Jenny Lea
• Children: Darius Nathaniel and Titus Alexander

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