Asher Harris

Asher Harris graduated with his PhD in Modern Historical Theology from the Department of Theology at Fordham University in Spring 2024. He continues to practice as an attorney in New York City. His research interests focused on the history of dissenting and schismatic movements within Christian history, primarily in Great Britain and the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Asher lives in Riverdale and is the father of four children.

Dissertation

"Crisis in the Antebellum Methodist Episcopal Church: Abolitionism, Slavery, and the Life of Nathan Bangs"

Specialization: History of Christianity/Historical Theology

Director: Kathryn Reklis