Alex Mayfield

I am Assistant Professor of History at Asbury University. My research utilizes digital methodologies which enable the reconstruction of historical networks and movements within global Christianity. My current research and teaching interests include global history, pentecostal and charismatic movements, and mission history in East Asia.

I am a Co-Principal Investigator on the China Historical Christian Database, an international collaborative project which seeks to identify every Christian person, event, and institution in China between 1550 and 1950. The project has become the largest collection of data on Christian actors in China’s past, and it continues to grow. My recent book book, The Kaleidoscopic City (Baylor University Press, 2023) explores the historical development of the pentecostal movement in Hong Kong.

I am also the Senior Associate Editor for Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.