Dr. Russell E. Richey, Dean Emeritus of Candler School of Theology and William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Emory University Dr. Richey serves as vice president of the Wesley Works Editorial Project,is president-elect of the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church and was a drafter for the General Conference Task Force to Study the Episcopacy (2008). He is a member of the United Methodist-Episcopal dialogue and the UMC Faith and Order Committee. A senior fellow at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion until retirement, he was active in its Christian Jurisprudence project. Currently he is a visiting professor at Duke Divinity School and research fellow in the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition.His research interest focuses on American religious history, with special emphases including Methodism, comparative denominational studies, and American civil or public religion. Dr. Richey is an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church.BOOKS:The Methodist Experience in America: A History (Abingdon Press, 2010), co-authorMethodist Connectionalism: Historical Perspectives (General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2010)Doctrine in Experience: A Methodist Theology of Church and Ministry (Kingswood Books/Abingdon, 2009)Marks of Methodism (Abingdon Press, 2005)Episcopacy in the Methodist Tradition (Abingdon Press, 2004), co-authorThe Methodist Experience in America (Abingdon Press, 2000), co-authorQuestions for the Twenty-First Century Church (Abingdon Press, 1999), co-editorDoctrines and Discipline (Abingdon Press, 1999), co-editorThe People(s) Called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of Their Life (Abingdon Press, 1998), co-editorConnectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission, and Identity (Abingdon Press, 1997), co-editorThe Methodists (Praeger Press, 1996, 1998), co-authorThe Methodist Conference in America: A History (Kingswood Books 1996)Reimagining Denominationalism (Oxford University Press, 1994),co-editor, co-authorPerspectives on American Methodism: Interpretive Essays (Kingswood Books, 1993), co-editorEarly American Methodism (Indiana University Press, 1991)Rethinking Methodist History (1985), co-editorDenominationalism (Abingdon Press, 1977), editor, co-authorAmerican Civil Religion (Mellen University Press, 1974), co-editorEDUCATION:PhD, Princeton University, 1970MA, Princeton University, 1968MDiv, Union Theological Seminary, 1966BA, Wesleyan University (CT), 1963