Our faculty members are engaged in scholarship and deeply committed to teaching undergraduate students. Drawn from top graduate programs, they remain active learners in their fields of study and also have a passion for student learning. These scholar-teachers enthusiastically invite you to join them in the pursuit of lifelong learning.
Faculty Bookshelf
Obed Mfum-Mensah - Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities 2025
Joseph Huffman - Medieval Cologne - From Rhineland Metropolis to European City (A.D. 1125-1475) 2025
John Fea - Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past 2024
David K. Pettegrew - Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey, 2024
Sarah P Myers - Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition, 2023
Nance McCown - Internal communication and employee engagement: a case study approach, 2023
Keith Quesenberry - Brand storytelling: integrated marketing communication for the digital media landscape, 2023
Paul Rego - Lyman Trumbull and the second founding of the United States, 2022
Devin Manzullo-Thomas - Exhibiting Evangelicalism: commemoration and Religion's presence of the Past, 2022
Keith B Miller - Readings on evolution & the nature of science: one Christian's perspective, 2022
Emerson B Powery - The good Samaritan: Luke 10 for the life of the church, 2022
Drew Hart - Who Will Be A Witness, 2020
David Pettegrew - One Hundred Voices, 2020
Michael Zigarelli - Management by Proverbs, 2020
Michael Zigarelli - Influencing Like Jesus, 2020
Obed Mfum-Mensah - We come as members of the superior race: distortions and education policy discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020
Keith Quesenberry - Social media strategy: Marketing and advertising in consumer revolution, 2020
Michael Zigarelli - Christian-Owned Companies: What does it look like when a follower of Jesus runs a business?, 2019
Jenell Paris - Introducing Cultural Anthropology, 2019
David Pettegrew - The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology, 2019
Joseph Huffman - The Imperial City of Cologne, 2018
Obed Mfum-Mensah - Education Marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, Politics, and Marginality, 2018
Fabrizio Cilento - An Investigative Cinema: Politics and Modernization in Italian, French, and American Film, 2018
John Fea - Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, 2018
Pete Powers - Goodbye Christ? : Christianity, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance, 2018
Obed Mfum-Mensah - Education, Social Progress, and Marginalized Children in Sub-Saraharan Africa: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Challenges, 2017
John Harles - Seeking Equality: The Political Economy of the Common Good in the United States and Canada, 2017
Christine Perrin - Bright Mirror, 2017
Michael Zigarelli - The Wesleyan Way: How to Build a Championship High School Soccer Program, 2017
Raeann Hamon - Exploring Family Theories, 2016
Michael Zigarelli - Soccer Field, Mission Field: 100 Coaches Reveal How They Play for Something More, 2016
Drew Hart - The Trouble I've Seen . 2016
John Fea -The Bible Cause. A History of the American Bible Society, 2016
David Pettegrew - “Imperial Surplus and Local Tastes: A Comparative Study of Mediterranean Connectivity and Trade,” book chapter with William Caraher, in Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Mediterranean, Routledge, 2016.
Emerson Powery – The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslave , 2016
John Harles – Choose Your Parents Wisely: Economic Inequality in the United States and Canada, 2016
Paul Rego – “William Howard Taft: The Constitutionalist as Critic of Progressivism, “In Defense of the Founders’ Republic: Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era, eds. Lonce Bailey and Jerome Mileur , 2015
Gladys Robalino – Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater, 2015
Ed Arke (co-author) – Sports Media: Reporting, Producing and Planning, 2015
Christine Perrin – Bright Mirror, book of poems, 2016
Christine Perrin, Editor – Writing and Rhetoric Series for Classical Academic Press
Crystal Downing - Salvation from Cinema: The Medium is the Message. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Crystal Downing – “Romantic Mythology” Patheos, March 2016
Crystal Downing – Scapegoating the Atonement, Patheos April 2016
Crystal Downing – “The Divine Comedy of C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers” Women and C.S. Lewis. E. Carolyn Curtis and Mary Pomroy Key. Oxford: Lion Hudson 2015
Fabrizio Cilento – The Aesthetics of the Procedural in Post-9/11 Cinema
John Fea, Why Study History? Reflecting on the Importance of the Past. (Baker Academic 2013).
Norman J. Wilson, History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography, 3rd ed. (Pearson 2013).
Bernardo Michael, Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816). (Anthem Press, 2012).
Douglas Jacobsen, and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education. (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Crystal Downing, Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication. (IVP Academic, 2012).
John Fea, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?. (Westminster: John Knox Press, 2011).
Douglas Jacobsen,The World's Christians: Why They Are, Where They Are, and How They Got There. (Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2011).
Emerson B. Powery, Mark: Immersion Bible Studies. (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2011).
Jenell Paris - The End of Sexual Identity, 2011
Michael Zigarelli - The Messiah Method, 2011
David L. Weaver-Zercher, Donald B. Kraybill, and Steven M. Nolt, The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010).
John Fea, ed., Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010).
Matthew S. Roth, Bird Silence. (Woodley Press, 2009).
Paul Rego, ie=UTF8&qid=1319568009&sr=1-1">American Ideal: Theodore Roosevelt's Search for American Individualism (Lexington Books, 2008).
John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America [Early American Studies] (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
David L. Weaver-Zercher, and Diane Zimmerman Umble, The Amish and the Media [Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies] (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
Douglas Jacobsen, and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, eds, The American University in a Postsecular Age (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Raeann Hamon - Cultural Diversity and Families, 2007
Susie Stanley, and C. Jeanne Orjala Serrão, Faith and Gender Equity: Lessons Plans Across the College Curriculum (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2007).
Reta Halteman Finger, Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts (Eerdmans Press, 2007).
Crystal Downing, How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith : Questioning Truth in Language, Philosophy, and Art (InterVarsity Press, 2006).
Douglas Jacobsen, and Rodney J. Sawatsky, Gracious Christianity (Baker Academic, 2006).
David L. Weaver-Zercher, and William H. Willimon, Vital Christianity: Spirituality, Justice, and Christian Practice (T. & T. Clark, 2005).
David L. Weaver-Zercher, Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler (Pennsylvania State University Press 2004).
Crystal Downing, Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers(Palgrave MacMillan 2004).
George F. Pickens, African Christian God-Talk (University Press of America, 2004).
Douglas Jacobsen, Thinking in the Spirit: Theologies of the Early Pentecostal Movement ( Indiana University Press, 2003)
John Yeatts, Revelation (Herald Press 2003).
Jenell Paris - Birth Control for Christians, 2003
Raeann Hamon - Mate Selection Across Cultures, 2003
James LaGrand, Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75 (University of Illinois Press 2002).
Susie Stanley, Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self (University of Tennessee Press 2002).
David L. Weaver-Zercher, Minding the Church: Scholarship in the Anabaptist Tradition (Pandora Press 2002).
Reta Halteman Finger, The Wisdom of Daughters: Two Decades of the Voice of Christian Feminism (Innisfree Press 2001).
Peter K. Powers, Recalling Religions: Resistance, Memory, and Cultural Revision in Ethnic Women's Literature (University of Tennessee Press 2001).
David L. Weaver-Zercher, The Amish in the American Imagination (The Johns Hopkins University Press 2001).
Norman J. Wilson, World Eras: European Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600 (Gale Group: 2001).
Joseph P. Huffman, The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy : Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307) (University of Michigan Press 2000).
Kim Yúnez, La obra de Felisberto Hernández: nomadismo y creación liminar (Editorial Pliegos 2000)
Larry Lake, and Edward W. Ulrich, Out There Beyond Beyond: The Story of Ed and Elaine Ulrich (Christian Publications 2000).
Joseph P. Huffman, Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German emigrants, c. 1000-c. 1300 (Cambridge University Press 1998).
Douglas Jacobsen, and William Vance Trollinger, Re-forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present (Eerdmans Press 1998).
Susanna Bede Caroselli, Italian Panel Painting of the Early Renaissance in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press 1994).
Susanna Bede Caroselli, The Painted Enamels of Limoges: a Catalogue of the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Thames and Hudson 1993).
Reta Halteman Finger, Paul and the Roman House Churches: A Simulation (Herald Press 1993).
John Harles, Politics in a Lifeboat: Immigrants and the American Democratic Order (Westview Press 1993).
Susie Stanley, Feminist Pillar of Fire: the Life of Alma White (Pilgrim Press, 1993).
Paul Nisly, Sweeping Up the Heart: A Father's Lament for His Daughter (Good Books 1992).
Douglas Jacobsen, An Unprov'd Experiment : Religious Pluralism in Colonial New Jersey (Carlson Publishers 1991).
Dean Curry, Global Transformation and Foreign Economic Policy: the Case of United States-European Community Agricultural Relations, 1958-1979 (Garland Publishing 1990).
Dean Curry, A World Without Tyranny: Christian Faith and International Politics (Crossway Books 1990).
Dean Curry, and Myron Augsburger, Nuclear Arms: Two Views on World Peace (Word Books 1987).
Susanna Bede Caroselli, The Casa Marliani and Palace Building in Late Quattrocento Lombardy (Garland Publishers 1985).
Dean Curry, Evangelicals and the Bishops' Pastoral Letter(Eerdmans Press 1984).
Paul Nisly, Why Suffering? (Herald Press 1980).