Education
A graduate of Stanford University (Bachelor, Philosophy) and of Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy, Religion), he taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992.
A graduate of Stanford University (Bachelor, Philosophy) and of Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy, Religion), he taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992.
In 1992 Wacker moved to Duke Divinity School, where he is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Christian History. He is the author or co-editor of seven books, including Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture (2001), and America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (2014), both published by Harvard University Press. He is an advisory editor of Books and Culture, The Christian Century, Fides et Historia, and Religion and American Culture.
Since 2010 he has served as a trustee of Fuller Theological Seminary.