Donald A. Yerxa
(Professor)
History, Dept. Chair
Ph.D.
and
M.A., University
of Maine; B.A. History, Eastern
Nazarene
College
Dr. Yerxa has taught at ENC since 1977.
In addition to heading the History Department, Dr. Yerxa is 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 the coauthor of Species
of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) with
fellow ENC professor Karl Giberson. Professor Yerxa is assistant
director of The
Historical Society, a
professional historical organization based at Boston University, and
editor of their publication, Historically
Speaking. He is
editing seven volumes in the University
of South Carolina Press series,
Historians in Conversation. The first two volumes in the series will
appear in 2008. Yerxa is also a contributing editor for Books
& Culture. Dr.
Yerxa was a recipient of the ENC Teaching Excellence Award in 1995; 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.
Email: donald.a.yerxa@enc.edu, Donald
A. Yerxa's CV, Phone: (617) 847-5813
James R. Cameron
(Professor)
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.
Email: james.r.cameron@enc.edu
Carla Lovett
(Associate
Professor) History
ABD, Boston
University; M.A. Boston University; B.A. Yale
University
Professor
Lovett has been teaching at ENC since the spring of 2002. Recent
research
projects include two papers, "Counting Sheep in District X: A Story of
a 19th Century Catholic Parish" and "'Six
Days You Shall Labor': Priest
and Parish in Working Class Vienna, 1875-1914." Professor Lovett is
completing
her dissertation entitled "Front Altars and Back Alleys: Religion and
Society
in 19th Century Vienna" for her doctorate at Boston University.
In 2007 she recived Boston University's Edwin
S. and Ruth M. White Prize
for excellence in research and writing and a Graduate
Research Abroad Fellowship from Boston University. At ENC
she also serves as advisor to the History
Club and the Honors Society and leads travel courses to
Europe and Washington, D.C. Professor Lovett is committed
to getting to know those whom she is instructing, and strongly
encourages
all her students to visit her office. She lives with her husband in
Quincy,
MA.
Email: carla.k.lovett@enc.edu, Carla
Lovett's CV, Phone: (617) 847-5816
Randall
J. Stephens (Assistant Professor) History
Ph.D.,
University
of Florida; M.A., Emporia
State University; M.A., Nazarene
Theological Seminary; B.A., MidAmerica
Nazarene College
Dr.
Stephens began teaching at ENC in the fall of 2004. He brings expertise
in
many
fields: late 19th and early 20th century US history, cultural history,
American religious history, historical theology, race, gender, and
American
popular music. Stephens' manuscript, The
Fire Spreads: The Origins
of
Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South, will be published by Harvard University Press
in November 2007.
He is currently writing a book with ENC professor of physics Karl
Giberson on recent American evangelicalism that is under contract with Harvard
University Press.
Dr. Stephens is also composing a number of chapters
and articles dealing with religious and cultural history. He
created and manages the
ENC history department webpage
and
is also an editor of the Journal of
Southern
Religion and an associate editor of the review of the
Historical
Society, Historically
Speaking. Stephens
received the ENC Professional Achievement Award in 2007.
Email: randall.stephens@enc.edu, Randall
J. Stephens' CV, course
syllabi, sound
&
vision: heavy rotation, 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
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