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Donald B. Kraybill

Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (PA). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University.  
                                            
Nationally recognized for his scholarship on Anabaptist groups, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of many books and dozens of professional articles.  His books have been translated into eight different languages.  Professor Kraybill’s research and commentary on Anabaptist groups has been featured in print media and on radio and television programs across the United States and in many other countries. He is editor of Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, a series published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kraybill has received numerous awards including the National Religious Book Award for The Upside Down Kingdom (3rd ed. 2003, Herald Press), which has been translated into six languages.  He has authored or coauthored seven books on Amish life and culture, including The Riddle of Amish Culture (rev. ed. 2001, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Contact Information:
The Young Center
Elizabethtown College
One Alpha Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Fax (717) 361-1443
Email:
Website: http://users.etown.edu/k/kraybilld/index.htm

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 20:25:26 GMT Steven M. Nolt http://amishgrace.mennonite.net/Authors:=StevenMNolt.html@CB1


Steven M. Nolt

Steven M. Nolt is a professor of history at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, where he has taught since 1999.  He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame, and a graduate theology degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

He has studied Amish history and culture across many settlements. His books on the Amish include A History of the Amish (rev. ed., Good Books, 2003); Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (2nd ed., with Donald B. Kraybill, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities (with Thomas J. Meyers, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); and  Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War (with James O. Lehman, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

His other publications include Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic (Penn State University Press, 2002). He is also Book Review Editor for the journal Mennonite Quarterly Review.

He is married to Rachel (Miller) Nolt and they are the parents of two daughters.

Contact Information
Department of History
Wyse Hall 312
Goshen College
Goshen, IN 46526
(574) 535-7460
Email:

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 20:28:36 GMT David L. Weaver-Zercher http://amishgrace.mennonite.net/Authors:=DavidLWeaverZercher.html@CB1

David L. Weaver-Zercher

David L. Weaver-Zercher is associate professor of American religious history and chair of the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in religion from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997.

Professor Weaver-Zercher’s writing has focused on outsiders’ perspectives and portrayals of the Amish. His books in that area include The Amish in the American Imagination (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001); Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler (Penn State University Press, 2005); and a co-edited volume with Diane Zimmerman Umble, The Amish and the Media (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).  

Weaver-Zercher’s publications also include Vital Christianity: Spirituality, Justice, and Christian Practice, co-edited with William H. Willimon (T & T Clark, 2005). His writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Church History, Mennonite Quarterly Review, and North Carolina Historical Review.

He is married to Valerie Weaver-Zercher and is the father of three young sons.

Contact Information
Department of Biblical and Religious Studies
Box 3053
Messiah College
Grantham, PA 17055
(717)796-1800, ext. 7379
Email:

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