Wallace L. Daniel
Mercer University
Wallace L. Daniel is Distinguished University Professor of History at Mercer University. Earlier, he taught Russian history for more than twenty years in the Department of History at Baylor University, then served as chair of the Department of History, and later as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, prior to moving to Mercer, in 2008, to serve as Provost of the university. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently, Russia’s Uncommon Prophet: Father Aleksandr Men and His Times, published by Northern Illinois University Press in 2016; Women of the Catacombs: Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin’s Russia, which he translated and edited, foreword Roy R. Robson, preface Archpriest Aleksandr Men (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, 2021); Freedom and the Captive Mind : Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, 2024). He has held three Fulbright-Hayes Awards and two IREX awards for study in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia. In addition, he is the author of numerous journal articles and presentations, including “The Illusions They Carried: Nuclear War, Henry Dakin, and Bridging the Gap to Peace in the Cold War,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (2025), published online, forthcoming in print edition; ”The Sacred and the Secular: The Russian Orthodox Church and the Intelligentsia, Past and Present,” Journal of Church and State 62, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 217-248); “Aleksandr Men in Siberia: The Formation of a Russian Priest,” Opening Address, international conference on “Alexander Men—His Life and Legacy,” Moffat, Scotland, September 14-17, 2012. He is a member of the Council of Management (Trustees) in London and a member of the Advisory Council, Keston Center at Baylor University, Waco, Texas.