Experience

Administrative and Research Assistant, Feb. 1997 to present

• Assist Center Fellows and students with research
• Answer requests for information on Anabaptist and Pietist groups
• Do library and internet research
• Coordinator of conferences
• Exhibit curator

Writer-Researcher, 1984-1996

• Researched material for books of my authorship (see below) and books written by others.
• Served as consultant on matters related to Anabaptist groups.
• Answered requests for information about Anabaptist groups including inquiries  from the media.
• Was picture researcher and kept picture files.
• Did photographic work including copying photos, developing film and printing black and white photos.
• Collected artifacts for museum.

Education

Cedarville College

Wright State University

Activities

• Lecturer on the Plain People at schools, colleges, elderhostels, historical societies, and other organizations
• Spoke at the Communal Dress Conference at Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan, October 1999
• Participant in Old Order History Meetings
• Chairman of the Sonlight River Brethren School Council

Publications

• Ohio Amish Directory (1973) (Historical charts)
• Directory of the Old Order River Brethren (1974-1995)
• "The Old Order River Brethren Church” (1978) In Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage
• Plain Buggies: Horse-drawn transportation of the Amish, Mennonites and Brethren (1981)
• The Brethren Encyclopedia (1983) (eight articles)
• Why Do They Dress That Way? (1986)
• The Amish Wedding and Other Special Occasions of the Old Order Communities (1988)
• The Central Market Cookbook (1990) (wrote historical material)
• The Hutterite Community Cookbook (1990) (wrote historical material)
• Living Without Electricity (1990)
• The Mennonite Encyclopedia Vol. V (1990) (six articles)
• “Old Order River Brethren” (1990) (article in Dictionary of Christianity in America
• German-American Life (1991) (three articels)
• Amish Houses and Barns (1992)
• An Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups (1996)
• Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture (three articles)
• The Story of the Village of Intercourse (forthcoming) (co-author)

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