Professor Wigger teaches American history at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. His research interests focus on American cultural and religious history.

His publications include the following books:

PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists
Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, 1770-1820
Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture, co-edited with Nathan Hatch.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia

Contact John for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision
  • Location: Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
  • Article Feed
  • Joined