David N. Hempton

David Neil Hempton (born 1952) is a Northern Irish historian of evangelicalism, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Biography Hempton was born on 19 February 1952, in Northern Ireland. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (1974) from the Queen's University Belfast and his Doctor of Philosophy degree (1977) from the University of St Andrews. Hempton began teaching at Queen's University in 1979, where he was professor of modern history and director of the school of history. He retired as HDS dean at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, but remains on the faculty.

Selected publications Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850, winner of The Whitfield Prize (1984) The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion C. 1750–1900 (1996) Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (1996) Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, winner of the Jesse Lee Prize (2005) Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (2008) The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century, winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize (2011)