Faculty Profile: William McCoy

Assistant Professor History Department


William McCoy

Contact Information


phone: 617-847-5815
campus phone: 5815
Old Colony Campus, room 103

Biographical Notes

Bill McCoy has taught at ENC since January 2007.  He brings expertise in modern African and modern European history.  McCoy is completing his doctorate in African history at Boston University, which has one of the premier programs in that field.  His dissertation will examine missionary activities and humanitarian aid in southern Africa.  He presented a paper on this theme at the 2008 Conference on Faith and History in Bluffton, Ohio.  Professor McCoy currently teaches Western Heritage, World Political Geography, and Africa in World History. In 2009 the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities and the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity selected McCoy to participate in a summer faculty development workshop in the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa on “Public Theology: The South African Experience.” 

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, History, Boston University 

B.A., Point Loma Nazarene University