Jason Wallace

William Jason Wallace specializes in modern intellectual and religious history and holds the Stockham Chair of Western Intellectual History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduating from the University of Virginia he joined Samford University’s History Department in 2002. As the inaugural holder of the Stockham Chair Dr. Wallace ensures that Western ideas and institutions are an integral part of a Samford education. Dr. Wallace also directs Samford's freshmen Core Texts Program, a two-semester course sequence that introduces students to great works of literature, philosophy, history, and theology. In addition to teaching great books to the freshmen, he also teaches courses on medieval, modern, and American intellectual history and methods of historical research and writing. Dr. Wallace has published a book examining religious conflict in the nineteenth century, as well as several chapters in edited volumes, and numerous articles and critical reviews.