Lecturer, History
Walker Robins is a historian of American religion and foreign relations, with a special focus on the relationship between American Christians and Israel/Palestine. His book, Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel, examines how Southern Baptists engaged with the land, the people, and the politics of Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Book:
Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptist and Palestine before Israel (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020)
Recent Articles:
“Allenby, O’ Allenby: John Huston Finley’s Internationalist Case for a British Mandate in Palestine,” First World War Studies (2024), 1-18.
“’Weizmann to her was God’: Dorothy Thompson’s Journey to and From Zionism,” American Jewish History 106, no. 1 (January 2022), 55-80.
“Cultural Zionism and Binationalism Among American Liberal Protestants,” Israel Studies 23, no. 2 (Summer 2018), 142-167.
This marked the second year in a row Merrimack partnered with Lynn, MA non-profit A Bed for Every Child to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
