Randall
J. Stephens (Associate Professor) History, Dept. Chair
Ph.D.,
University
of Florida; M.A., Emporia
State University; M.A., Nazarene
Theological Seminary; B.A., MidAmerica
Nazarene College
Professor
Stephens began teaching at ENC in the fall of 2004. He brings expertise
in
many
fields: late 19th and early 20th century US history, American religious
history, race, and
American
popular music. In Spring 2012 he will be a Fulbright
Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway. In 2008 Harvard
University Press published Stephens' book, The
Fire Spreads: The Origins
of
Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South. The Atlantic
Monthly called it a "masterful account of how the South
nurtured and altered a
once-marginalized religious movement" and praised it as "the most
fluent and authoritative synthesis of a complex
and controversial subject." Similar accolades appeared in the the
Times Literary Supplement and Publishers
Weekly. In 2009 the book
won the Wesleyan Theological Society's Timothy
L. Smith and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Book Award. Stephens is
currently writing a book with ENC professor of physics Karl
Giberson on recent American evangelicalism that is under contract with Harvard
University Press.
He has composed a number of chapters
and articles dealing with religious and cultural history.
Stephens has also written for the Christian Century, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, Harp, Immanent Frame, the History News Network,
and Skyscaper Magazine. He
created and manages the
ENC history department webpage.
Stephens has served as editor of the Journal
of
Southern
Religion (2006-2010) and is an editor of the review of the
Historical
Society, Historically
Speaking. In
June 2011, he will become associate editor of Fides
et Historia,
the journal of the Conference on
Faith and History. Stephens
received the ENC Professional Achievement Award in 2007 and 2010. In
2008 the History
News Network
named him a Top Young Historian.
Old Colony 104, Email:
randall.stephens@enc.edu, Randall
J. Stephens' CV, course
syllabi, sound
&
vision: heavy rotation, Phone: (617) 847-5816
William McCoy (Assistant Professor) History
Ph.D. Candidate, History, Boston
University; B.A., Point
Loma Nazarene University
Bill McCoy has taught at ENC since
January 2007. He brings expertise in modern African and modern
European history. McCoy is completing his doctorate in African history at
Boston University, which has one of the premier programs in that
field. His dissertation will examine missionary activities and
humanitarian aid in southern Africa. He presented a paper on this
theme at the 2008 Conference on Faith and History in Bluffton,
Ohio. Professor McCoy currently teaches Western Heritage,
World
Political Geography, and Africa in World History. In 2009 the Coalition
of Christian Colleges and Universities and the Nagel Institute for the Study of
World Christianity selected McCoy to participate in a summer
faculty development workshop in the cities of Johannesburg and Cape
Town, South Africa on “Public Theology: The South African Experience.”
Old Colony 103, Email:
william.mccoy@enc.edu, Phone:
(617) 847-5815
Sean Coleman
(Adjunct
Professor) Law & Government
JD,
Suffolk University; B.A. History, Eastern
Nazarene College
Mr.
Coleman is a corporate lawyer
for American
International Group, Inc. in Boston. He is a member of ENC's
Pre-Law
Advisory Council and teaches two courses in our pre-law
curriculum: GO452-Seminar in Law & Society and GO455-Seminar in
Christianity and the Law.
Email: sean.coleman@aig.org
Donald A. Yerxa (Professor Emeritus) History,
Dept. Chair
Ph.D. and M.A., University of Maine;
B.A.
History, Eastern
Nazarene College
Professor Yerxa, who was graduated from ENC in 1972 and
earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maine, has taught at
ENC since
1977. In May 2009, the College awarded him emeritus status. He
continues to
teach on a regular but limited basis in the History Department and
remains the
director of the Pre-Law
Program at ENC. He is the author of two books
on Anglo-American naval history and scores of articles, essays, and
interviews on historical and interdisciplinary topics. He is also the
coauthor
of Species of Origins: America's Search for a
Creation Story (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) with fellow ENC
professor Karl Giberson. He has edited seven volumes in the University of South Carolina Press
series, Historians in Conversation,
and is also editor of British
Abolitionism and the Question of Moral Progress in History,
forthcoming in
2011 by the same press. From 2001 through 2010, Professor Yerxa
served as assistant director and then co-director of The Historical Society, a
professional
historical organization of 1000 members based at Boston University. He
remains
a senior editor of the Society’s flagship journal Historically Speaking,
published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. In
June 2011, he will become editor of Fides
et Historia,
the journal of the Conference on
Faith and History. Yerxa is also a
contributing editor
for Books
& Culture. Professor Yerxa was
a recipient of the ENC Teaching Excellence Award in 1995 and 2009; the
ENC
Professional Achievement Award in 1999, 2002, and 2006; and the Alumni
Achievement Award in 2004. He lives with his wife in Weymouth, MA.
Old Colony 105, Email:
donald.a.yerxa@enc.edu, Donald
A. Yerxa's CV, Phone: (617) 847-5813
James R. Cameron
(Professor Emeritus)
History & Government
Ph.D.,
M.A. Boston
University; B.A. History, Eastern
Nazarene
College
Dr.
Cameron has taught at ENC since 1951 and has signed on for the
2004-2005
school year. From 1959-1994 he served as head of the History Department
at ENC, and was one of four professors who participated in writing the
curriculum that only now, 35 years later, is being revised. He is the
author
of ten books, including a two-volume history of English constitutional
law, Frederick
William Maitland and the History of English Law
(reprint,
2001). He also published numerous articles in newspapers and
journals.
In addition, Dr. Cameron has written two volumes on the history of ENC,
Eastern
Nazarene College: The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950 (1968) and The
Spirit Makes the Difference: The History of ENC, Part II 1950-2000
(2000). He lives in Quincy with his wife, Ruth.
Canterbury Hall, Email:
james.r.cameron@enc.edu
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