Eugene Arthur TeSelle (August 8, 1931 – March 1, 2018) was an American academic, church historian, and community activist.

The family lived in Nebraska and Ohio, then in Colorado Springs, Salida, and Greeley, CO.

from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1952, finishing in 3 years.

He taught at Yale Department of Religious Studies (prior to 1969) before joining Vanderbilt Divinity School, in which he became Oberlin Professor of Church History and Theology.

[1] In November 2018, an overpass of Interstate 440 was named after TeSelle, who had campaigned against the highway.