People Andrew Smith Andrew Smith Professor of History of Christianity; Director, Baptist Studies B.A., Carson-Newman College (2002) M.Div., Mercer University (2005) M.A., Vanderbilt University (2008) Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (2011) S.T.M., Drew University (2023) Andrew has served in the School of Biblical and Theological Studies since 2011. He teaches courses in New Testament, History of Christianity, Systematic Theology, Comparative Studies and Great Commission Studies. He also directs the university’s Oxford Studies Program, through which qualified students study for a term at Regent’s Park College of Oxford University. An ordained Baptist minister since 2004, Andrew has served in staff and senior pastor roles in several congregations. He is married to Pamela, a member of the Carson-Newman Nursing faculty, and has two daughters. Selected Publications: Fundamentalism, Fundraising, and the Transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1919-1925. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2016. “Southern Baptist Convention,” in Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism, Ed. Andrew Atherstone and David Jones (New York, Oxford University Press, 2023): 180-197. “Take Up the Word of Jesus Christ: Lee Scarborough’s Encounter with Reuben Torrey and the Holiness Movement.” Baptist History and Heritage LVIII, no. 2 (2023): 79-95. “Ben Bogard, J. Frank Norris, and the ‘Baptist Bride:’ The Birth and Afterlife of an Agrarian Eschatology.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 49, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 19-31.
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