Daniel Bays

Daniel Bays

Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Professor Emeritus of History, University of Kansas

Daniel H. Bays is Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Kansas, where he chaired the History Department. His major publications include China Enters the Twentieth Century (1978), Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (ed., 1996), The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History (co-editor with Grant Wacker, 2003), his most recent book China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural connections, 1900-1950 (co-editor with Ellen Widmer, forthcoming), and numerous articles. He has directed major research projects, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, on the history of Christianity in China and American missionary movements.