THE DIVINITY SCHOOL at WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
Dean of the Divinity School and Professor of Church History
B.A., Texas Wesleyan College
M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Boston University
Bill J. Leonard is dean and professor of church history at Wake Forest University Divinity School, Winston-Salem, NC. He has held teaching posts at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Samford University, and Seinan Gakuin University (Fukuoka, Japan). Leonard holds the B.A. from Texas Wesleyan College, the M.Div. from a Baptist seminary, and the Ph.D. from Boston University. He is the author or editor of 15 books, including A Dictionary of Baptists in America, Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism, and Baptist Ways: A History, a survey of Baptist history from 1600 to 2000 (Judson Press 2003). His most recent book is entitled Baptists in America, published by Columbia University Press (2005).
His spouse, Candyce Crew Leonard, is a professor in Humanities at Wake Forest. They have one daughter, Stephanie, and are members at First Baptist Church, Highland Avenue in Winston-Salem.
