Prof. Donald H. Akenson

Dr. Akenson is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author who is considered the world's foremost authority on the Irish Diaspora. He has written several books, including the highly critically acclaimed Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds and St. Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus. His most recent novel is the two volume, An Irish History of Civilization (London: Granta, 2006). His most recent academic books are Discovering the End of Time: Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O’Connell (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016) and Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North American Evangelicalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

He also serves as the Editor of the major series “McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion,” of which there are, at present, eighty-four volumes in print.