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Faculty Highlights

 

John Fea

  • John’s book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction  (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2011), published in February 2011, was selected as the gold medalist for ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year in the category of Religion, was nominated for the prestigious George Washington Book Prize, and was recognized by the American Library Association on their list of “Outstanding Academic Titles” in their publication Choice
  • John's edited collection, Confessing History: Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation (with Jay Green and Eric Miller) was published in October 2010 by University of Notre Dame Press.

  • John's book, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers and the Rural Enlightenment in America, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, is out in paperback and available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 

Joseph Huffman

  • Joseph published "Freud's Impact on American Culture," in Encyclopedia of Jewish Popular Culture, ed. Jack Fischel (Greenwood Publishing, in process).

  • Joseph published "Travel and Mobility" and "Cologne," in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ed. Robert E. Bjork, Oxford 2008: Oxford University Press.

  • Joseph published "Die sozialen Aspekte der Außenpolitik: Diplomatische Beziehungen zwischen englischen und deutschen Herrschern im 12. Jahrhundert," in Der Weg in eine weitere Welt: Kommunikation und "politisches Handeln" im 12. Jahrhundert ed. Hanna Vollrath, Münster 2008: LIT Verlag.  

  • Joseph has recently published book reviews in Choice and Francia: Studies in Western European History.

  • Joseph's book, Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne has been released in paperback by Cambridge University Press.

 

 

James LaGrand

  • Jim wrote a column entitled "Obama suggests moving past racial divide," in the April 7, 2008, Harrisburg Patriot-News.

  • Jim gave a presentation on the history of the American West to a group of international faculty as part of the State Department's Summer Institute for University Teachers in 2007.

  • Jim led a two-day seminar for local history teachers on how to teach themes in recent U.S. history in 2007.

  • Jim was asked by the Western Historical Quarterly and the University of Illinois Press to evaluate manuscripts during 2007

  • Jim will have an article entitled "Indian Work and Indian Neighborhoods: Adjusting to Life in a Midwestern Metropolis during the 1950s," in A People In-Between: Native Americans in the Midwest, to be published by the University of Illinois Press (2008).

  • Jim has recently published reviews in Ethnohistory, The Journal of American History, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and American Studies.

 

 

Bernardo Michael

  • In 2011-2012, Bernardo Michael continued to work on various research, professional development, teaching, and public outreach activities. He continues to work on a book length manuscript on statemaking and territory in colonial South Asia. He also worked on two articles, one of which appeared in Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies and the other was republished by the Social Science Baha, an organization devoted to scholarship, education, and public humanities/social science outreach in Nepal. Another article on “Nepali History as World History” was published by the Baha in Fall 2011. The article is based on a lecture delivered in Nepal a few years ago. Bernardo also continues to write for wider audiences including book reviews, contributions to The Bridge, and blogposts and actively participated in the Cultural Studies Dialogue. In summer 2011 he undertook a research trip to South Asia that took him to India and Nepal.

    Given his new location in the office of Diversity Affairs he has commenced attending professional development conferences on diversity, inclusive excellence, global education, and cross cultural living. These have taken him to conferences organized by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, The Higher Education Research Institutue at the University of California at Los Angeles, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE), and the College Student Diversity Summit in Harrisburg. At Messiah, Bernardo made a number of presentations on the topic of diversity and inclusive excellence in the areas of curriculum, campus climate, and institutional capacity building. He also participated in a civil rights tour that took him to a number of civil rights sites in the south as well as gave him an opportunity to talk with survivors and activists. Bernardo continued to speak to various publics within the college and outside as well on a variety of topics concerning Christian faith, cross cultural research and living. He continued to volunteer at his local church and the Malayali community in South Central Pennsylvania.

 

David Pettegrew

  • David received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant from Harvard University that will provide sabbatical release in 2012-2013 to complete his book, Corinth on the Isthmus: Crossroads of the Mediterranean World ( University of Michigan Press).
  • David completed another season of excavation with the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project and 9 Messiah College students, and finished a collaborative monograph on the archaeological survey of these coastal sites in Cyprus.

  • David recently published articles in the Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012), the American Journal of Archaeology (2011), Hesperia (2010), and the International Journal of Historical Archaeology (2010). He presented papers at the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature conference in London, and the annual meetings of the Byzantine Studies conference and the Archaeological Institute of America.

 

Anne Marie Stoner-Eby

  • Anne Marie published "African Clergy, Bishop Lucas, and the Christianizing of Local Initiation Rites: Revisiting ‘The Masasi Case’," in Journal of Religion in Africa, June 2008.

 

Norman J. Wilson

  • In 2005, the 2nd edition of Norm's book History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography was published by Prentice Hall.

  • In April 2005, Norm presented a paper entitled "Bürgerschaft and Bürgerrecht in the Free Imperial City of Regensburg" at the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (The Conference Group for Early Modern German Studies) Fourth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthodoxies and Diversities in Early Modern German-Speaking Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University.