Faculty Listing

Ralph D. Winter, PhD

Education:

  • Cornell University, PhD
  • Columbia University, MA
  • Princeton University, BD
  • California Institute of Technology, BS
  • Columbia Teachers College, TESOL certificate

Teaching Career:

  • Chancellor, William Carey International University (1997-2009)
  • President, William Carey International University (1990-1997)
  • Professor, Fuller Seminary (1966-1976)
  • Professor of Anthropology, Landivar University in Guatemala (1961-1966)
  • Visiting professor in Guatemala at the Universidad Mariano Galvez, Colegio La Patria, the Instituto Biblico Mam, Seminario Evangelico Presbiteriano, and Interamerican School
  • Visiting professor in the United States at Westmont College, Pasadena College, the Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, and Nyack Missionary College
  • Guest lecturer at hundreds of other institutions around the globe

Other Career Highlights:

  • General Director, U.S. Center for World Mission (1976-1990)
  • Director, Industrias Técnicas, a technical center for Guatemalan Indian pastors (1958-1966)
  • Created the Theological Education by Extension (TEE), an innovative educational program that revolutionized education in the 20th century and became popular in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and India
  • Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (1974)
  • Created the missions training course Perspectives used by Urbana and churches around the world
  • Served on numerous educational, theological, and missionary boards across North, Central, and South America
  • Missionary in Central America
  • Editor, Mission Frontiers magazine
  • Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential Evangelical Christians in the United States

Publications:

  • Numerous articles and books, including Frontiers in Mission, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, andThe 25 Unbelievable Years