David Neil HemptonFRHistS (born 1952) is a Northern Irish historian ofevangelicalism, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies atHarvard Divinity School, and fellow of theRoyal Historical Society.^[1]

Hempton was born on 19 February 1952,^[2] in Northern Ireland.^[3] He earned hisBachelor of Arts degree (1974) from theQueen's University Belfast and hisDoctor of Philosophy degree (1977) from theUniversity of St Andrews.^[4] Hempton began teaching at Queen's University in 1979, where he was professor of modern history and director of the school of history.^[4] He joined the faculty ofBoston University in 1998, where he was professor of the history of Christianity, and in 2008 named "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" at the divinity school.^[3] In 2007, he was appointed as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies atHarvard Divinity School,^[4] and in 2012 it was announced he would succeedWilliam A. Graham as dean of the school.^[3] In 2020 he was admitted as a member of theRoyal Irish Academy.^[5] He retired as HDS dean at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, but remains on the faculty.^[6]

• Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850, winner ofThe Whitfield Prize^[7] (1984)ISBN 041555571X
• The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion C. 1750–1900 (1996)ISBN 0415077141
• Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (1996)ISBN 0521479258
• Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, winner of the Jesse Lee Prize^[8] (2005)ISBN 0300119763
• Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (2008)ISBN 030014282X
• The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century, winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize^[9] (2011)ISBN 184511440X

• Hempton's faculty page at Harvard Divinity School

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