Anne Marie Stoner-Eby
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127 Black Swamp Road
Dept. of History,
Messiah College
Bainbridge, PA 17502
One College
Ave., Box 3051
717-367-7806
Grantham, PA 17027
SLS@paonline.com
717-796-1800 ext 2046
amstonereby@messiah.edu
Academic Employment
Fall 2003 to present: Assistant Professor of History, Messiah
College, Grantham, Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
IDSB 200 Introduction to African Studies (Fall 2003)
HIS 360 African History I, Earliest Times to 1800 (Fall 2004)
HIS 360 African History II, 1800 to Present (Fall 2006)
HIS 360 History of the Middle East (Spring 2004)
HIS 106 Western Civilization, 1500-Present (Fall 2003, Fall 2004)
HIS 153 European Missionaries in Africa (J-term 2004, 2005)
HIS 357 European Imperialism (Spring 2005)
HIS 313 Women and Gender in History (meets Women’s Studies Minor requirement)
(Fall 2004)
HIS 304 Historical Study of Peace (meets Peace and Conflict Studies Minor
reqmnt) (Spring 2006)
Education
Ph.D. History, December 2003, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dissertation: African Leaders Engage Mission Christianity:
Anglicans in Tanzania, 1876-1926
Advisor: Dr. Steven
Feierman
Fellowship: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation
Research Abroad Fellowship, United States Department of Education
Field Exams:
- African History (focus on Eastern and Southern Africa, 1800-1960
- Modern European History (focus on Britain, Germany, France, 1750-1945)
- Social Study of Religion (focus on missions and Christianity)
Certificate: World
History
M.A. History, August 1996, Temple University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
M.A. Thesis: U.S. Policy towards Namibia
during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations
M.A. Exams:
• Colonial Rebellions in Eastern and Southern Africa
• Theories of the New European Imperialism of the Late Nineteenth Century
B.S. May 1989, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg,
Virginia
Social Work major; English minor; graduated summa cum
laude
Academic Presentations
Christian Mwalimu: Language, Identity, and Power Amongst Anglican Mission
Teachers in late Nineteenth Century Tanzania. Presented November 2004
at the African Studies Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA
"Our Mother Has Very Much Increased Her Children": Mission Narratives from
Young African Teachers in Southeastern Tanzania, 1888-1896. Presented
November 2003 at the African Studies Association annual meeting, Boston,
MA.
Changing English Missionary Minds: African Clergy and Education for
Girls in Tanzania, 1885-1915. Presented March 2003 at the Mid-Atlantic
Conference on British Studies, New Brunswick, NJ.
"But Now We See Each Other by Faith, Indeed in our Prayers": The Letters
of Teacher Agnes Sapuli of Southeastern Tanzania to her Mission Sponsor in
England, 1898-1912. Presented December 2002 at the African Studies
Association annual meeting, Washington, DC.
Not Merely Cooks: The Missionary Wives of the African Leadership of the Universities’
Mission to Central Africa, 1880-1940. October 1999. Invited presentation
at the "Gender in Empire and Commonwealth" seminar series organized by Dr.
Deborah Gaitskell, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England.
Not Merely Cooks: The Missionary Wives of the African Leadership of the Universities’
Mission to Central Africa, 1880-1940. April 1998. Presented at
the North Atlantic Missiology Project (NAMP) conference, "Missions in the
High Imperial Era, 1880-1910," Cambridge, England. Conference supported
by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Received NAMP travel award.
Education and Missionaries’ Mental Landscapes: The Universities’ Mission
to Central Africa and the Peoples of Southeastern Tanzania, 1876-1914.
November 1997. Presented at the African Studies Association annual
meeting, Columbus, OH.
"Almost a Christian": The Intersecting Landscapes of the Universities’ Mission
to Central Africa and the Peoples of Southeastern Tanzania, 1876-1901.
May 1997. Presented at "Africans Meeting Missionaries: Rethinking Colonial
Encounters" conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Awarded
travel grant from conference organizers.
Works in Progress
" We Shall Meet in Heaven": Letters from an African Women Teacher to her
Mission Sponsor in England, 1898-1912, proposal submitted for book publication.
"I called him to stop him from doing anything uncivilized which was forbidden
in unyago": African Anglican Clergy Christianize Initiation in Southeastern
Tanzania, 1897-1926," to be part of a panel entitled Inventing Orthodoxy:
Africans Shaping Mission Christianity During the Colonial Era, paper
and panel submitted to the African Studies Association annual meeting, November
2005, Washington, D.C.
"I called him to stop him from doing anything uncivilized which was forbidden
in unyago": African Anglican Clergy Christianize Initiation in Southeastern
Tanzania, 1897-1926," to be submitted to the Journal of Religion in
Africa.
Biographical essays on ten early African priests and three early African
women teachers of the Anglican church in southeastern Tanzania, to be published
in the Dictionary of African Christian Biography, an ongoing project overseen
by the of the Overseas Ministries Studies Center, New Haven, Connecticut.
"Changing English Missionary Minds: African Clergy and Education for
Girls in Tanzania, 1885-1915" to be submitted for journal publication.
Academic Service
Lecture, "Why Study African History," Messiah College, April 26, 2005
Judge, National History Day competition for regional middle and high school
students, Messiah College, April 9, 2005
Member, Peace and Conflict Studies Initiative Committee, Messiah College,
Fall 2004 to present
Faculty Advisor, African Student Union, Messiah College, Fall 2004 to present
Faculty Resource, History Club, Messiah College, Fall 2003 to present
Discussant, "African Voices in African History" panel, Scholar for a Day
seminar with Terence Ranger, April 2001, sponsored by African Studies Center,
University of Pennsylvania
Planning Committee Member, Scholar for a Day seminar with Johannes Fabian,
March 1999, sponsored by African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Academic Awards
2005-2006 Internal Grant award, Messiah College
2004-2005 Vocation Grant award, Messiah College
2004-2008 Work Load Reallocation Program, Messiah College
2004-2005 Conference Participation Fund award, Messiah
College
2003-2004 Conference Participation Fund award, Messiah
College
2001-2002 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, School of Arts
and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
2000-2001 Non-service award, History Department, University
of Pennsylvania
1999-2000 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research
Abroad Fellowship, United States Department of Education
Summer 1998 Pre-dissertation research and travel award,
Ford Foundation Workshop on Problematics of States and Identities, University
of Pennsylvania
April 1998 Travel award, North Atlantic
Missiology Project (NAMP) conference, "Missions in the High Imperial Era,
1880-1910," April 1998, Cambridge, England
1997-1998 Foreign Language and Area
Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Summer 1997 Pre-dissertation research
and travel award, Mellon Seminar on Theory and Practices of History, History
Department, University of Pennsylvania
May 1997 Travel award from conference
organizers, "Africans Meeting Missionaries: Rethinking Colonial Encounters,"
May 1997, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1996-1997 Research Assistantship, African Studies Center,
University of Pennsylvania
Edited African Studies Newsletter
International Experience
Tanzania Dissertation research, Dar
es Salaam and Masasi, 1999-2000
Pre-dissertation trips, Dar es Salaam
and Masasi, 1998 and 1997
England Dissertation research, Oxford, 1999
Pre-dissertation trips, Oxford, 1998
and 1997
Zambia Program Coordinator, Anti AIDS
Project, Lusaka, 1992-1993
(seconded by Mennonite
Central Committee)
Europe Traveled in twelve countries
for three months, 1990
Middle East Semester in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan with
Eastern Mennonite University, 1986
Ethiopia Lived with parents in Addis
Ababa (ages 9 to 14), 1976-1981
Work Experience
Primary care-giver for terminally-ill mother, Bainbridge, PA, 1993-1994
Program Manager, Anti AIDS Project, Lusaka, Zambia, 1992-1993
(seconded by Mennonite Central Committee)
Research Assistant, Refugee Policy Group, Washington, D.C., 1992
Intern, Horn of Africa Program, Fund for Peace, Washington, D.C., 1991
Program Coordinator, Bethany Women’s Center, Washington, D.C., 1989-1990
(seconded by Mennonite Board of Missions)
Professional Affiliations
African Studies Association
North American Conference on British Studies
World History Association
American Historical Association
Citizenship Status
United States citizen
References
available upon request