User:Robert H. Stockman

Robert Stockman has a doctorate (Th.D.) in history of religion in the United States from Harvard University. He is the author of The Bahá'í Faith in America: Origins, 1892-1900, volume 1 (Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1986); The Bahá'í Faith in America: Early Expansion, 1900-1912, volume 2 (Oxford, U.K: George Ronald, 1996); Thornton Chase, First American Bahá'í (Wilmette, Ill.: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2002); and various articles about Bahá'í history and theology. He teaches religious studies part time at DePaul University in Chicago, particularly courses in Islam, Religion in the United States, History of Christianity, Buddhism, and World Religions. He is coordinator of the Research Office of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Director of the Wilmette Institute, a non-credit on-line e-learning system specializing in courses on the Bahá'í religion and related topics. He resides in South Bend, Ind., with his wife and two children.