Cecil M. Robeck, Ph.D.
Cecil (Mel) Robeck is an ordained Pentecostal minister with the Assemblies of God. He has worked at Fuller Seminary since 1974, where he is professor of church history and ecumenics and director of the David J. DuPlessis Center for Christian Spirituality. His recent historical research centers on the Azusa Street Mission and Revival and its African American pastor William Seymour.
Robeck is a co-founder and former chair of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches-Pentecostal Dialogue and a co-founder of an international discussion begun in 2004 between Pentecostals and Lutherans. Currently he serves as co-chair of the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue and co-chair of the Joint Consultative Group between the World Council of Churches and Pentecostals. He is also a past President of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and the North American Academy of Ecumenists.
Robeck has authored several books including The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement. For nine years, he was editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is also part of the Azusa Street Memorial Committee and has lectured on the early Pentecostal sites in Los Angeles at UCLA, USC, Vanguard University, and the Japanese American National Museum.
