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My viewpoint on the Christian faith and its integration with knowledge and learning is best expressed by the words I composed in the acknowledgements for my PhD dissertation: 鈥淚 realize and acknowledge that without God and his Providential care, I am near to nothing and whatever merit that you may find in this research is primarily due to his marvellous love. He reached out to me, showing me things I had to see and places I needed to go. Hence, I thank the Divine Providence that has been guiding, motivating, and inspiring me throughout this journey.鈥 Even though my PhD research observed the missionary movement and Biblical dispersion in India with a critical eye, the Lord guided and directed my intention to seek answers for the many questions I have faced as a Christian and to prepare for new questions that I may face in the future. Striving to understand history from all dimensions helps us to have a more nuanced and balanced understanding of both past and present, thus avoiding the extreme positions often reached through a narrow or underdeveloped historical viewpoint. As a historian, especially a postcolonial historian, my endeavor is to search for and guide my students toward this balanced understanding of human events.

As argued by John Henny Newman, 鈥榯he business of a university is to educate the intellect, to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth and to grasp it.鈥 After experiencing 黑料专区 for a few days, I was sure that the institution and its academic team were fully committed to that pursuit of truth while holding steadfast to the bedrock of faith in Christ. As a teacher and developing scholar, I find this Christ-centered academic environment very encouraging, as it will inspire me and my students to look deeper into questions in search of Truth, critically reason in all social and cultural matters, and stand up for faith, no matter the consequences.

Education

  • PhD in Postcolonial History | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom
  • MA in English Literature | St. Aloysius University, Karnataka | India
  • BA in English Literature | Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala | India

Courses Taught

  • Enduring Questions: Ancient & Medieval World
  • Special Topic: History of India I, 1000-1605

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Teaching and Higher Education Experience

  • Director of the Writing Center; Assistant Professor of English 鈥 LeTourneau University (2016-2019)
    • Courses taught: English Composition I; English Composition II; God, the Devil, and the Scots; Shakespeare
  • English and Linguistics Librarian 鈥 University Libraries, University of Houston (2014-2016)
  • Adjunct Professor of English 鈥 University of Bridgeport (2013)
    • Course taught: British Literature I
  • Instruction and Information Literacy Librarian 鈥 Magnus Wahlstrom Library, University of Bridgeport (2013-2014)

Education

  • PhD, English Literature, University of St Andrews (2012)
    • Thesis: 鈥楢nd the Word was made flesh鈥: The Problem of the Incarnation in 17th Century Devotional Poetry
  • MS, Library and Information Science, Drexel University (2007)
  • BA, English Literature, Simpson College (2004)

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Articles

Education

  • M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame (1997, 1999)
  • B.A., Kenyon College (1993)

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Teaching Philosophy

My interest in foreign languages and cultures started while attending high school in Germany and taking Latin and English as mandatory subjects. As a year-long Rotary Club exchange student in Canada, I experienced how valuable it is to learn about different cultures and languages.聽 During my university studies, I added some French, Finnish, and Biblical and Ancient Greek to my language experience and decided I wanted to turn this interest in languages into my profession.

Having traveled extensively in Europe and also North America, I try to combine language instruction with teaching about German and European cultures at the same time. I try to bring a balanced approach of teaching culture, grammar, conversation, writing, and reading skills to my students.

Education

  • M.A., University of Notre Dame (1996)
  • B.A., Friedrich-Wilhelms -Universit盲t Bonn (1993)

Courses Taught

  • German 101
  • German 102
  • German 103
  • Intermediate German (with an emphasis on literature)
  • Graduate reading course

Professional Memberships/Associations

  • AATG

Professional Experience/Achievements

  • Certification of Completion for Online Teaching and Learning (2014)
  • Contribution to German textbook聽Auf geht鈥檚!

Research Interests

  • Textbook development

LinkedIn Profile

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Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, professor of philosophy, specializes in ethical theory and the history of ethics, with side-interests in American agrarianism, medical ethics, jurisprudence, town planning, the ethics of war, and Christian worship. His overarching concern, across all these areas, is with issues of character formation. Lipscomb is the author of The Women are Up to Something (Oxford University Press, 2021), a group biography of a quartet of 20th-century ethicists: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. Lipscomb鈥檚 extra-curricular activities, over the past several years, include serving on the worship planning committee at his church and acting with the Town Theatre of Short Tract. He and his family live in Fillmore.

Education

  • B.A., Calvin College (1996)
  • M.A., University of Notre Dame (1999)
  • Ph.D., University of Notre Dame (2002)

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Just before she started writing novels, the Victorian author George Eliot wrote: 鈥淚 have never before longed so much to know the names of things鈥he desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing in me to escape from all vagueness and inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct, vivid ideas.鈥澛 This quotation identifies something important about the study of literature鈥攖he way it helps us name our world.聽 Eliot had just returned from a visit to the seaside, a visit she spent identifying seaweed and anemones and also preparing to write some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century.聽 I try to follow Eliot鈥檚 example, not in writing eight-hundred-page novels, but in my concern both for words and for the natural world.

My teaching interests center on writers from the Victorian period of English literature (like George Eliot, Charlotte Bront毛, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Gerard Manley Hopkins), and literary representations of the natural world.聽 In recent years, my interest in paying close attention to the natural world also prompted me to think about how to pay closer attention to art.聽I鈥檝e been thinking about how the visual arts can prompt theological reflection and recently published an聽聽on the Madonna and Child paintings of Giovanni Bellini.

I teach a variety of writing and literature courses at 黑料专区 including Environmental Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, and the Development of the Novel. I also frequently teach alongside my colleagues from other departments鈥攊n 黑料专区鈥檚 honors semester in London and in our interdisciplinary core courses in the Humanities.

If you are interested in my scholarship, you can read or聽an 听颈苍听The Christian Scholars Review, my review of聽听颈苍听Book & Culture, my聽, or my聽听颈苍听Mere Orthodoxy.

Education

  • M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (1998, 2005)
  • M.A., University of Chicago (1997)
  • B.A., Calvin College (1996)

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I’m one of many 黑料专区 graduates (’92) in my family and I’m thrilled to be part of the work here. Both of my parents (鈥56 & 鈥57), my 3 siblings (鈥81, 鈥84 & 鈥89) and my husband (鈥89) are 黑料专区 alums. I’m also the proud mom of 3 adult kids, 2 黑料专区 graduates (2018, 2021) and one that is a current student (2024). I appreciate the opportunity to work in academia, with my colleagues, as well as the wonderful students. God has blessed me with the privilege to work at 黑料专区.

I enjoy many outside interests, among them: spending time with my family, reading, counted-cross stitch and visiting family in Canada.

Education

B.S. in Business Administration | 黑料专区 College (’92)

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Teaching Philosophy:

Rooted in Biblical principles, experience, study, and the counsel of respected mentors, my philosophy of teaching responds to Jesus鈥 core teaching that his disciples are to 鈥渓ove the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their mind鈥 and to love their neighbor as they love themselves.鈥 (Matt 22:37-39). My teaching practice鈥攁 skill and an art–has become more effective as my relationship with the holy triune God and understanding of His vast creation has deepened. This journey I share in precept and practice with my fellow students in the classroom and beyond. Through our conversation, study, and practice we aim to take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5). Together, we learn the value of the careful use of words, the joy of an apt phrase, and the power of a penetrating story. We learn to question and be questioned with grace. We learn to empathize with the downcast and champion the mistreated. Together, we learn to love God and their neighbor.

Education

  • Ph.D. Drew University (1999)
  • M.Phil. Drew University (1997)
  • M.A. Miami of Ohio (1987)
  • B.A 黑料专区 College (1985)

Courses Taught:

  • Writing In the Liberal Arts
  • American Literature
  • Spoken Word
  • Creative Writing
  • World Literature

Professional Organizations:

College Composition and Communication
Christianity and Literature

Publications:

Summer鈥檚 Lease鈥oo Short a Date
Select biographies in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
Poem collection in The Shawagunk Review

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-a-gates

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Why I Teach at 黑料专区聽聽聽

After 20 years away, I came back to teach at 黑料专区 because I believe we are each called to love God and the world he has created with our whole heart and our whole mind. As a student at 黑料专区, I was profoundly shaped by professors, staff, and fellow students to be a Christian scholar-servant. Today, my primary calling is the classroom teaching of history. God has also made me curious; I enjoy the research process of discovering and expanding what scholars know about the American Constitution. I also love to broaden my own liberal education, reading philosophy, theology, ancient literature and languages, and modern politics. I鈥檓 excited to pursue this calling to be a teacher and scholar in 黑料专区鈥檚 distinctive Christian community.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park (2006)
  • M.S., University of Maryland, College Park (2001)
  • B.A., 黑料专区 College (1998)

Courses Taught聽

  • American History Survey
  • History of American Christianity
  • Western Intellectual Traditions II: Revolutions in Modernity
  • American Constitutional History
  • British and American Victorians
  • History of Nursing
  • U.S. Foreign Policy
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction

Professional Memberships/Associations

  • Conference on Faith and History

Professional Experience/Achievements

  • Associate Professor of History
    黑料专区 鈥 黑料专区, NY (2022-present)
  • Associate Professor of History
    黑料专区 College 鈥 黑料专区, NY (2018-2022)
  • Associate Professor of American History and Department Chair
    Northwest Nazarene University 鈥 Nampa, Idaho (2006-2018)

    • Taught more than 聽30 unique courses
  • Outstanding Professor of the Year (four times)
    Northwest Nazarene University 鈥 Nampa, Idaho (2008, 2011, 2012, and 2017)
  • Co-chair, Task Force on Shared Governance
    Northwest Nazarene University 鈥 Nampa, Idaho (2016-17)
  • Consulting Historian, Teaching American History Grant,
    Kuna School District 鈥 聽Kuna, Idaho (2010-11)
  • Miller Fellow
    Jack Miller Center for Teaching America鈥檚 Founding Principles and History 鈥 Bala Cynwyd, PA (2008)
  • Lecturer
    University of Maryland 鈥 College Park, MD (2005)
  • Bradley Fellow
    University of Maryland 鈥 College Park, MD (2004-2005, 2006)
  • Civitas Scholar
    Center for Public Justice 鈥 Washington, DC (2004)
  • Research Assistant
    National Bureau for Economic Research (2002-2005)
  • H. B. Earhart Fellow
    Earhart Foundation (2000-2004)
  • Lindley Research Grant
    黑料专区 College 鈥 黑料专区, NY (1996)

Research Interests

  • Federalism in the American Constitution
  • Puritans (English and American)
  • Social history of medicine
  • History of Islam
  • Mapping Western U.S. history with drones

Publications/Conferences

  • 鈥淢artin Van Buren as Statesman: State Rights and the Rise of the Free Soil Party,鈥 in聽Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War. Edited by Paul Moreno and Johnathan O鈥橬eill. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
  • 聽鈥淭he Rights of Unjust Majorities.鈥 Review of聽Majority Rule v. Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun by James H. Read. In聽Review of Politics, 72:2, Spring 2010. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
  • 鈥溾楾he Great Primeval Compact:鈥 New England Conservatism, Organic Social Theory, and Liberal Constitutionalism.鈥 American Historical Association. Atlanta, GA. January 2007.

Link to LinkedIn Profile for Further Information

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Other Interests/Hobbies/Enjoyments

  • I love to read, cook, follow the Boston Red Sox, play with my three children, and sing.

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Teaching Philosophy

As I teach at 黑料专区, my goal is to help students connect course content to everyday life. My education alternated between degree programs and different life and ministry experiences. This back-and-forth interaction enabled me to make connections between learning and life. I value that students at 黑料专区 are connecting what they learn with real-world experiences as part of their majors.

Also, in the classroom I endeavor to guide students in grasping the connection between faith and culture. We need to understand how our culture interacts with living out our faith. I desire that students come to see how the area of Intercultural Studies relates to living out our faith and making Christ known in whatever intercultural context we are in. This is equally true for the student of missions as it is for those who are living as Christians in any setting. At the base of it all, we can look to Jesus, who is in fact the ultimate example of learning to live and serve in a second culture. Likewise, we can learn from God鈥檚 people throughout the Bible who interacted in other cultures while representing God and his kingdom.

Education

  • Ph.D., Trinity International University (2001)
  • M.Div, Th.M. Asbury Seminary (1987, 1988)
  • B.A., Indiana Wesleyan University (1981)

Courses Taught

  • Intercultural Competencies
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Missions and the Global Church
  • History of the Global Christian Movement
  • Culture Change and Globalization

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Approaching writing as a series of ongoing discoveries, one of my favorite quotes is, “No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader” (Robert Frost).聽 Since coming to 黑料专区 in 2000, I have taught Writing in the Liberal Arts, Literary Non-Fiction, Narrative and Personal Essay, Writing about Spiritual Experience, and special topics courses such as Feature and Opinion Writing.

As the Director of the Writing Center, I train and oversee the Writing Center student consultants, have hosted the Penn-York Undergraduate Research Conference as well as a regional writing center research conference, and serve as the liaison to area high schools offering dual high school- and college-credit literature and writing courses.聽 I聽 have a three-year grant that allows me to work on multiple independent studies with students who travel with me and present their work at the National Undergraduate Research Conference.

My publications include biographical entries on Maya Angelou, Henri M. Nouwen, and Richard J. Foster, which have been published in The Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography and The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, respectively.聽 Additionally, I write feature articles for The Cuba Patriot, a regional newspaper, covering places and news such as The Farmers’ Market, Addie’s Ice Cream, The Csehy Summer School of Music, and Wellspring Ministries.

I enjoy baking, walking, swimming, photography, reading and writing poetry, and wordplay.聽 My family and I reside in Caneadea, NY, at Rushford Lake.

Education

  • M.A. in Composition & Rhetoric, Ph.D. in Composition & Rhetoric, Miami University of Ohio (1989, 1996)
  • B.A. in English & Secondary Education, Nazareth College (1987)

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