Devin Manzullo-Thomas

Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas is associate professor of American religious history at Messiah University, where he also serves as director of the E. Morris and Leone Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan studies; director of archives; and director of common-content courses. As a scholar, his interests and expertise focus on the history of Christianity in the United States, public memory and commemoration, and material culture. Dr. Manzullo-Thomas is the author of Exhibiting Evangelicalism: Commemoration and Religion’s Presence of the Past (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022) and Storyteller: The Life and Ministry of E. Morris Sider (Brethren in Christ Historical Society Press, 2025). He has also published journal articles and book reviews in a variety of popular and scholarly venues, including The Christian Century, Church History, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Fides et Historia, and Brethren in Christ History and Life. Currently, Dr. Manzullo-Thomas is researching and writing Open to the Spirit: The Brethren in Christ Church in the Twentieth Century, a social, cultural, and institutional history of the Brethren in Christ in North America between 1900-2000. The book is under contract with the Brethren in Christ Historical Society Press.

• First Year Seminar: Give Peace a Chance
• Brethren in Christ Life and Thought
• Theology of Violence and Nonviolence
• Wesleyan/Holiness Theology
• Introduction to Christian Theology
• Senior Seminar in Peace and Conflict Studies 

History of American Christianity, History and theology of the Brethren in Christ Church, Christian attitudes toward war and peace, Public memory and commemoration, Material Culture