Rosalie Beck

Rosalie Beck, a church historian, has been a member of the faculty at Baylor University since 1984. Originally a scientist, she entered Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth following two years of ministry in South Vietnam before its capture by the Communists, She earned a master of divinity degree at SWBTS, majoring church history and receiving the first Robert A. Baker Church History Award as the outstanding student in that field. She then earned her Ph.D. in religion at Baylor, and was asked to join the Baylor faculty following completion of her doctorate.