Rev. Derrick R. Rosenior, Ph.D. serves as the director of the William J. Seymour Center for Black Church Studies. Dr. Rosenior is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, and holds a Ph.D. from Howard University (Washington, DC) in Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication. His doctoral dissertation entitled “Toward Racial Reconciliation: Collective Memory, Myth and Nostalgia in American Pentecostalism” focused on the rhetoric of racial reconciliation of William J. Seymour, the Azusa Street revival and the 1994 “Memphis Miracle” event. He also serves as president of the Assemblies of God Black Fellowship of Southern California and is the teaching pastor at Orange County First Assembly of God in Santa Ana, California.
Seymour Center for Black Church Studies
Office Location: AGTS, Second Floor, Faculty Suite, Office 214/Remote
Professional Memberships & Noteworthy Community Involvement
Society for Pentecostal Studies
Religious Communication Association
National Communication Association
President, Black Fellowship of Southern California of the Assemblies of God
Earned Degrees with School of Issuance & Professional Licensures
Ph.D. Howard University (Washington, DC, 2005)
M.A. Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, MI, 2000)
B.A. Fairmont State University (Fairmont, WV, 1998)