David Mislin is a historian of the nineteenth- and twentieth century United States, with a focus on American intellectual, cultural, and religious history. He is the author of Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age (Cornell University Press, 2015). He also contributed chapters to Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) and The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). His journal articles have appeared in the Journal of the Historical SocietyReligion and American Culture, and Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture.

Since 2014, he has taught in the Intellectual Heritage program at Temple University.