Pacific School of Religion
Associate Professor of Church History
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1992

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1983
M.Div., School of Theology at Claremont, 1982
M.A., School of Theology at Claremont, 1978
B.U.S., University of New Mexico, 1974

Phone: 510/849-8221
E-mail: rwalker@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• History of Christianity
• History of Modern Christianity
• Women and American Religion
• Protestantism in the American West

Selected Publications

• The Evolution of a UCC Style: Essays in the History and Ecclesiology of the United Church of Christ (Cleveland: United Church Press, 2005).
• "Catholic Heartland in Transition: Arizona and New Mexico," in Jan Shipps and Mark Silk eds. Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004).
• "Liberators for Colonial Anáhuac: A Rumination on North American Civil Religions," in Religion and American Culture (Winter, 1998).
• "Protestantism in Modern New Mexico," in Religion and Modern New Mexico, eds. Ferenc M. Szasz and Richard W. Etulain (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997), 27-62.