History and Political Science Department
Goshen College, 1700 South Main Street, Goshen, IN  46526

Office: Wyse Hall 312
Telephone: 574-535-7460
Facsimile: 574-535-7457 (attn: Steve Nolt)
Electronic mail: stevemn@goshen.edu

Education
PhD        1998        University of Notre Dame
MA         1996        University of Notre Dame
MATS      1994        Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
BA          1990        Goshen College

Academic Appointments
Professor of History, Goshen College, 2007-present
Chair, History and Political Science Department, 2005-present
Assistant and Associate Professor of History, Goshen College, 1999-2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, 1998-1999
Fellow, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Spring 1997

Publications
Books
Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War, with James O. Lehman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. pp. 368.

Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, with Donald B. Kraybill and David Weaver-Zercher. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. pp. 236.

Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities, with Thomas J. Meyers. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. pp. 256.

An Amish Patchwork: Indiana’s Old Orders in the Modern World, with Thomas J. Meyers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. pp. 192.

Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits, 2nd ed., with Donald B. Kraybill. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. pp. 286. First edition, 1995. Named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Book.”

A History of the Amish, Rev. ed. Intercourse, Pa.: Good Books, 2003. pp. 380. First edition, 1992.

Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic. University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2002. pp. 238.

Through Fire and Water: An Overview of Mennonite History, with Harry Loewen. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1996. pp. 350.

Amish Micro-Enterprises: Models for Rural Development, with Stephen M. Smith, et al. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences, 1994.  pp. 110.

Selected chapters, journal articles, and other publications

“Inscribing Community: The Budget and Die Botschaft in Amish Life,” in The Amish and the Media, ed. by Diane Zimmerman Umble and David Weaver-Zercher.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming, 2008.

Introductory essay, with Thomas J. Meyers, in Darryl D. Jones, Amish Life: Living Plainly and Serving God.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

“Mennonite Identity and the Writing on the ‘New Giving’ since 1945,” Journal of Mennonite Studies 23 (2005), 59-76.

“From Bishops to Bureaucracy: Observations on the Migration of Authority,” Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 5 (Fall 2004), 14-24.

“The Amish of Indiana: Resources for Teaching Third and Fourth Grade Social Studies,” with Thomas J. Meyers.  Teacher resource notebook published and distributed by the Mennonite Historical Library, Goshen, Indiana, 2003, with support from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

“Liberty, Tyranny, and Ethnicity:  The German Reformed ‘Free-Synod’ Schism (1819-1823) and the Americanization of an Ethnic Church,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 125 (January/April 2001), 35-60.

“The Amish ‘Mission Movement’ and the Reformulation of Amish Identity in the Twentieth Century,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 75 (January 2001), 7-36.

“Becoming Ethnic Americans in the Early Republic: Pennsylvania German Reaction to Evangelical Protestant Reformism,” Journal of the Early Republic 20 (Fall 2000), 423-46.

“The Quest for American Kinship: Liberty, Ethnicity, and Ecumenism among Pennsylvania German Lutherans, 1817-1842,” Journal of American Ethnic History 19 (Winter 2000), 64-91.

“A ‘Two-Kingdom’ People in a World of Multiple Identities: Religion, Ethnicity, and American Mennonites,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 73 (July 1999), 485-502.

“‘Avoid Provoking the Spirit of Controversy’: The Irenic Evangelical Legacy of The Biblical Seminary in New York,” in Re-forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present, ed. by Douglas Jacobsen and William V. Trollinger, Jr., 318-40.  Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1998.

“Formal Mutual Aid Structures Among American Mennonites and Brethren:  Assimilation and Reconstructed Ethnicity,” Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (Spring 1998), 71-86.

“Nonagricultural Micro-enterprise Development Among the Pennsylvania Amish: A New Phenomenon,” with Stephen M. Smith, et al., Journal of Rural Studies 13 (July 1997), 237-51.

“The Rise and Fall of an Amish Distillery:  Economic Networks and Entrepreneurial Risk on the Illinois Frontier,” Illinois Mennonite Heritage 22 (September 1995), 45, 53-63; and (December 1995), 65, 75-79.

“The Rise of Microenterprises,” with Donald B. Kraybill, in The Amish Struggle with Modernity, ed. by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan, 148-63. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1994.

Current Research
The Amish: Community and Diversity in North America, with Karen Johnson-Weiner and Donald B. Kraybill, comprehensive, comparative study of North American Amish society.

Mennonites Meet North America: A People’s History [working title], with Royden Loewen, manuscript in process; a volume in the Global Mennonite History series.

Grants and Fellowships
Fetzer Institute Grant, 2006-2007, Forgiveness and Amish society, Co-PI with David Weaver-Zercher and Donald B. Kraybill. $48,600.

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant, 2005-2008, “Amish Diversity and Identity: Transformations in 20th Century America,” Co-PI with Donald B. Kraybill and Karen Johnson-Weiner. $100,000.

Kauffman Foundation Grant, 2006-2008, “Amish Entrepreneurship,” Co-PI with Donald B. Kraybill and Karen Johnson-Weiner. $29,992.

Lilly Endowment Grant, 1999-2003, “Amish and Old Order Groups of Indiana,” Co-PI, with Thomas J. Meyers; John D. Roth, project coordinator. $373,600.

Mininger Center Research Grants, 2006, 2005; Travel Grant, 2004.

Plowshares Faculty Grant, 2005.

Goshen College Faculty Research Grants, 2003, 2001.

Goshen College Multicultural Education Office Course Enrichment Grant, 2002.

Editorial and Professional Activities
Book Review Editor, Mennonite Quarterly Review, 2003-present.

Series Editor, Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, 2000-present.

Board of Editors, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 2007-2010.

Advisory Board, Journal of Mennonite Studies, 2007-present.

Board of Editors, Mennonite Quarterly Review, 2000-present.

Contributing Editor, Mennonite Life, 2000-present.