Thomas S. Kidd

Thomas S. Kidd (born 1971) is an American historian of religion who is John and Sharon Yeats Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies at Baylor University, and Research Professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Before becoming a professor, Kidd studied at the University of Notre Dame. He is a notable historian and author of such books as George Whitefield, a biography on the 18th-century Anglo-American preacher. Kidd credits George Whitefield as being "profoundly influential on the American nation's founding."