Faculty



Donald A. Yerxa (Professor) 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 addition to heading the History Department, 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 co-director of The Historical Society, a professional historical organization based at Boston University, and senior editor of Historically Speaking, a publication that has been likened to a New York Review of Books for history. He is editing seven volumes in the University of South Carolina Press series, Historians in Conversation. The first four volumes in the series appeared in 2008. Three more will be published in 2009. Yerxa is also a contributing editor for Books & Culture and is on the editorial boards of Fides et Historia and New Global Studies. Professor 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.
Old Colony 105, 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.

Canterbury Hall, Email: james.r.cameron@enc.edu

Randall J. Stephens (Associate Professor) History 
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 2008 Harvard University Press published Stephens' book, The Fire Spreads: The Origins of Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American SouthThe 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.  He created and manages the ENC history department webpage.  Stephens is also editor of the Journal of Southern Religion and editor of the review of the Historical Society, Historically Speaking. He received the ENC Professional Achievement Award in 2007 and 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 (Instructor) 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

The James R. Cameron Center for History, Law, & Governrnent  | Eastern Nazarene College | 23 East Elm Avenue  | Quincy, Massachusetts 02170  | Phone: 1-617-745-3000  |  email: r a n d a l l . s t e p h e n s @ e n c . e d u


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