Nathan Orr Hatch

As an administrator at the University of Notre Dame, and ultimately its first Protestant provost (1996-2005), created programs for faculty and student scholarship, helped chart a course for the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and recruited an unusually talented faculty. At Wake Forest breathed new energy into one of the nation's great collegiate universities by recruiting a first-rate team of exceptionally talented faculty and administrators. In student development, emphasized vocation for life. His addresses point students and their parents to the life-long benefits of critical thinking, moral discernment, and cultural engagement. As a historian, first gained widespread recognition with The Democratization of American Christianity (1989), acknowledged as one of the two most influential books in religious history over the preceding quarter century.