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According to Wikipedia, Dana Lee Robert is a historian of Christianity and a missiologist. She is a professor at Boston University, where she has worked since 1984. She was the co-founder of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission in 2001, one of the first university-based Centers on World Christianity in North America. For years, Robert held the School of Theology's Truman Collins Professorship in World Christianity and History of Mission, but in 2022 she was installed in the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professorship, the highest distinction bestowed upon senior faculty members who remain actively involved in research, scholarship, teaching, and the University’s civic life.

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American women in mission : a social history of their thought and practice (1998) (167)
Shifting Southward: Global Christianity since 1945 (2000) (96)
Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (2009) (74)
Afro-Christian Religion and Healing in Southern Africa (1991) (52)
From Missions to Mission to beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions since World War II (1994) (50)
The First Globalization: The Internationalization of the Protestant Missionary Movement between the World Wars (2002) (40)
Converting colonialism : visions and realities in mission history, 1706-1914 (2008) (29)
World Christianity as a Women's Movement (2006) (19)
Christianity: A Social and Cultural History (1997) (18)
Cross-Cultural Friendship in the Creation of Twentieth-Century World Christianity (2011) (17)
The Influence of American Missionary Women on the World Back Home1 (2002) (14)
Evangelist or Homemaker? Mission Strategies of Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Wives in Burma and Hawaii (1993) (12)
Occupy Until I Come: A. T. Pierson and the Evangelization of the World (2003) (12)
American women in mission: A social history of their thought and practice. The modern mission era, 1792-1992: An appraisal. (1998) (9)
The Origin of the Student Volunteer Watchword: “The Evangelization of the World in This Generation” (1986) (8)
Frontiers of African Christianity : essays in honour of Inus Daneel (2003) (6)
Locating Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith (2018) (6)
WOMEN I N WORLD MISSION: CONTROVERSIES AND CHALLENGES FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE (2004) (6)
Mount Holyoke women and the Dutch Reformed Missionary Movement, 1874-1904 (1993) (5)
Historical Trends in Missions and Earth Care (2011) (5)
Forty Years of North American Missiology: A Brief Review (2014) (4)
The Methodist Struggle Over Higher Education in Fuzhou, China, 1877-1883 (1996) (4)
Forty years of the American Society of Missiology: retrospect and prospect (2014) (4)
The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries (2006) (4)
Mission Study at the University-related Seminary: The Boston University School of Theology as a Case Study (1989) (4)
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Mission to Russians in Manchuria, 1920-1927 (1988) (3)
Witness and Unity in 21st-Century World Christianity (2013) (3)
Politicians And Politics: Themes In British And Italian Elite Political Culture (1970) (3)
From Christ to Christendom (2009) (2)
Holiness and the Missionary Vision of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869-1894 (2000) (2)
The Legacy of Arthur Tappan Pierson (1984) (2)
American Crusade: Catholic Youth in the World Mission Movement from World War I through Vatican II (review) (2012) (2)
Global Friendship as Incarnational Missional Practice (2015) (2)
World Growth of the United Methodist Church in Comparative Perspective: A Brief Statistical Analysis (2011) (1)
Of missionaries, multiculturalism, and mainstream malaise: Reflections on the presbyterian predicament. Authors' replies (2003) (1)
For the Glory of God. How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery . By Stark Rodney. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. x + 496 pp. $35.00 cloth. (2004) (1)
Orthodoxy and Humanitarianism: Realities, Resources, and Future Research (2016) (1)
“Rethinking Missionaries” from 1910 to Today (2012) (1)
Ross, Andrew C. 1994. A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542–1742. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books; Edinburgh University Press, pp. xvii, 216. (1995) (1)
Mission and Statistics: Use with Care (1995) (1)
History of Missiology Web Site (2008) (1)
The Legacy of Adoniram Judson Gordon (1987) (1)
Book Review: The End of a Crusade: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and the Great War (1999) (1)
Traditions and Transitions in Mission Thought (2011) (1)
Selected Annotated Bibliography of Missiology (1986) (1)
What Happened to the Christian Home? The Missing Component of Mission Theory (2005) (1)
History and Future of the Book: An Information Literacy Conduit (2010) (0)
Tracking World Christianity (2005) (0)
Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World . Edited by Hansen Holger Bernt and Twaddle Michael. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. x + 307 pp. $44.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. (2006) (0)
Postscript: Multicultural Missions in Global Context (2009) (0)
Book Review: Sent to Heal! Emergence and Development of Medical Missions (2008) (0)
Conversion and Mission History: a Review of David W. Kling’s A History of Christian Conversion (2022) (0)
Conversion and Christian Community: The Missionary from St. Patrick to Bernard Mizeki (2009) (0)
Book Review: The Revival of 1857–58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening (2000) (0)
Christianity in Korea – Edited by Robert E. Buswell and Timothy S. Lee (2007) (0)
Global Networking for the Nations, 1910– (2009) (0)
Book Review: Putting Names with Faces: Women's Impact in Mission History (2014) (0)
The Big Picture: Mission Bibliography (1996) (0)
Book Review: Apologia, Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education (1989) (0)
African Pentecostalism: An Introduction . By Ogbu Kalu. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi + 360 pp. $24.95 paper. (2009) (0)
Women in World Mission: Purity, Motherhood, and Women's Well‐Being (2009) (0)
Vernaculars and Volunteers, 1450– (2009) (0)
Book Review: Pilgrim Path: The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii (1993) (0)
Book Review: An Endless Line of Splendor: Revivals and Their Leaders from the Great Awakening to the Present (1987) (0)
Book Review: Journeys That Opened up the World: Women, Student Christian Movements, and Social Justice, 1955–1975 (2006) (0)
Book Review: Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902–69 (2003) (0)
Journal of African Christian Biography: Cumulative Volume 2016 (June to December) (2016) (0)
Book Review:The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 Lian Xi (1999) (0)
Selected Annotated Bibliography: Missions: History (2000) (0)
Book Review: Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice (2000) (0)
One Christ—Many Witnesses: Visions of Mission and Unity, Edinburgh and Beyond (2016) (0)
Naming “World Christianity”: Historical and Personal Perspectives on the Yale-Edinburgh Conference in World Christianity and Mission History (2020) (0)
Local Churches vs. Traditional Mission Agencies (1998) (0)
Testimony: The Task of United Methodist Women's History (2017) (0)
Universality of Grace: Probing the Message of Vatican II (1990) (0)
The Truth of Christian Uniqueness (1989) (0)
Scottish Fulfilment Theory and Friendship: Lived Religion at Edinburgh 1910 (2020) (0)
Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change. By Barbra Mann Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xv + 231 pp. $49.95 cloth; $45.95 e-book. (2018) (0)
Book Review: Countdown to 1900: World Evangelization at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1990) (0)
The Founding of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the Beginnings of Boston University (2020) (0)
McAlister, Melani. The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii+394 pp. $29.95 (cloth). (2021) (0)
Forty Years of Missionary Research (1990) (0)
Book Review: Toward the Twenty-First Century in Christian Mission (1993) (0)
Book Review: Guardians of the Great Commission: The Story of Women in Modern Missions (1989) (0)
Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China E. G. Ruoff Charles Ewing Bessie Ewing (1992) (0)
Book Review: Women and Missions: Past and Present Anthropological and Historical Perceptions (1995) (0)
Book Review: Gender, Religion, and “Heathen Lands.” American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s–1940s (2001) (0)
Testimonies and Truth-tellings: Women in the United Methodist Tradition. (2008) (0)
Good News from Latin America? (2004) (0)
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 3, no. 2 (2016) (0)
The Politics of Missions: Empire, Human Rights, and Land (2009) (0)
Whither Mission in the World Council of Churches? (1991) (0)
David J. Endres American Crusade: Catholic Youth in the World Mission Movement from World War I through Vatican II (2011) (0)
Ever-Changing Contexts of Mission (1990) (0)
Robert E. Speer: Prophet of the American Church. By John F. Piper Jr,. Louisville, Ky.: Geneva Press, 2000. xxii + 538 pp. n.p. (2001) (0)
The Legacy of A.T. Pierson for World Mission Today (2002) (0)
Missionary Photography: Untapped Source for the Study of Christian Missions (1995) (0)
Johanna M. Selles. 2011. The World Student Christian Federation 1895–1925: Motives, Methods, and Influential Women. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, pp. xvii+294. Pb $27.20. ISBN 978608995080. (2012) (0)

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