Faculty



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 SpeakingStephens 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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