Dr. Daniel K. Williams

Dr. Daniel K. Williams is an associate professor of history at Ashland University whose books include “God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right,”  “The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship,” and “Abortion and America’s Church: A Religious History of Roe v. Wade” (2025, University of Notre Dame Press).

Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. in history from Brown University, and he taught for 18 years at the University of West Georgia before moving to Ashland.

His articles on the historical context of contemporary developments in American evangelicalism, conservative politics, and the abortion debate have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Christianity Today, and Mere Orthodoxy, as well as numerous other venues.