Our Faculty

Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, Ed.D.

Professor of Psychology; Director of Faculty Development

Lancaster Theological Seminary

Ed.D., Temple University, 1988

M.Ed. University of Illinois, 1975

B.A., Wheaton College, 1972

Psychology and Religion, History and Systems of Psychology,

Counseling Theories, Human Development/Generations

Relating religion, academic scholarship, and teaching;

professional development for educators

Co-director of “Religion in the Academy” (2008-2010),

a major research project funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc.

Jacobsen, D., & Jacobsen, R. H. (2008). Religion and higher education: Historic, personal, and public. Liberal Education 94:3 (Summer 2008), 44-49.

Jacobsen, D., & Jacobsen, R. H. (Eds.) (2008). The American university in a postsecular age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008

Jacobsen, D., & Jacobsen, R. H. (2008). Postsecular America (pp. 3-15); The ideals and diversity of church-related higher education (pp. 63-80); Talking about religion (pp. 221-231). In D. Jacobsen & R.H. Jacobsen (Eds.), The American university in a postsecular age.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Jacobsen, R. H. (2007). [Review of M. E. Marty, The mystery of the child.] Brethren in Christ Life and Thought 30(3), 541-543.

Jacobsen, D., & Jacobsen, R. H. (2007). Vanity, variety, vision: Protestant universities and the American experience. The Cresset: A Review of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs 70(4), 5-13.

Jacobsen, D., & Jacobsen, R. H. (2005). Pentecostalism and the academy; Response to the Pneuma essays on faith and scholarship. Pneuma 27(1), 106-109; 157-160.

Jacobsen, R. H. (2005). A woman, a Christian, an academician. In V. L. Erickson & S. A. Farrell (Eds.) Still believing: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim women affirm their faith. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 57-64.

Jacobsen, D. & Jacobsen, R.H. (2004). Christian scholarship: Enlarging the conversation. New York: Oxford University Press.