Miller, R.J., Brubaker, B.H. & Peterson, J.C. Eds. (2005). Viewing new creations with Anabaptist eyes: Ethics of biotechnology. Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing House.

Brubaker, B. (1996). Self-care in nursing home residents. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 22 (7), 22-30.

Brubaker, B. (1990). A faculty learns how to make self-pacing work. Nursing & Health Care, 11 (2), 74-77.

Miller, R. & Brubaker, B. Eds. (1990). Bioethics at the beginning of life: An Anabaptist perspective. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.

Brubaker, B. (1988). An attributional analysis of weight outcomes. Nursing Research, 37, 282-287.

Brubaker, B. (1983). Teacher role behaviors in a baccalaureate nursing program. Virginia Nurse, 51, 148-154.

Brubaker, B. (1983). Health promotion: A linguistic analysis. Advances in Nursing Science, 5 (3), 1-14.

“Justice and the Liberal Arts at Eastern Mennonite University,” Westmont College Third Annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts, January 2003

Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Program Education Session, December 2006

Chair, Nominating Committee, Park View Federal Credit Union

Member, Virginia Mennonite Conference Constitution and Bylaws Committee

President/Chair, Harrisonburg Everence Fraternal Chapter

SACS visitor, chair of visiting committee March 2008

Member of SACS annual meeting program committee, 2007-08

Chair of Virginia Mennonite Conference Organizational Review Task Force, 2006

Beryl H. Brubaker Endowed Scholarship for Nursing established by administration at EMU upon retirement in 2008

Appointed Provost Emeritus, June 2008

Anabaptist Health Care Award, 2000 recipient “In recognition of her commitment to increased understanding of how health care can promote faithful communities.” Presented by MMA at Mennonite Health Assembly, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 25, 2000

Along with other staff wrote successful planning, implementation and sustainability Lilly grants on “The Theological Exploration of Vocation,” 2001-2009

Wrote successful Title III grant to build campus network, July 1994

Isabel McIssac Award for doctoral study, 1980

Elected Outstanding Nurse from EMC, District 9, Virginia Nurses’ Association, May, 1974

Hampton-Robb Prize for Academic Achievement at graduation, Case Western Reserve, 1967

Academic Achievement award at graduation, Riverside Hospital School of Nursing, 1964

Valedictorian, Belleville Mennonite School, 1960

Charter member of Nurses’ Educational Foundation, December 1998

Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International, Pi Mu Chapter, and Phi Delta Kappa

SACS-COC annual meeting, Louisville, KY, December, 2010

Virginia Library Association annual conference, Williamsburg, VA, October 2009

SACS Fourth Annual Small College Initiative Atlanta, GA, April, 2009

Mennonite Assembly, San Jose CA, July 2007

Programs for the Theological Exploration of Vocation, Indianapolis IN, February 8-10, 2007

Chair, Library Task Force 2011-12

Member, Seminary Enrollment Strategies Group, 2009-10

Believer’s Church Commentary: Galatians (to be published)

Articles in various publications

Incivility in Nursing, Augusta Health Education Committee, May 2019 

Update on Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Shenandoah Region Nurse Practitioners, Harrisonburg, VA April 23, 2015
Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University, December 2012
“Use of Simulation in Critical Care”, Virginia Area Simulation Association, November, 2012
Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University, April 2012
Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University, December, 2011
“Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome”, Virginia Council of Nurse Practioners Regional Conference, Waynesboro, VA May 13, 2011
“Labs, Pieces of the Diagnostic Puzzle”, Rockingham Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg, VA December 21, 2010
Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University, December 7, 2010
Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University, May 1, 2010
Real World Program, Eastern Mennonite University: “Women’s Health Hot Topics”, November 10, 2009
Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University, April 28, 2009
Health Benefits of Exercise – presented to New Beginnings Fall Meeting, Marion ,VA 10/05/07

2021 Virtual NCLEX conference, 9/30/21, National Council State Boards of Nursing

Creating a Multicultural Foundation for Nursing, 4/21/21, Virginia Nurses Associateion

Investigation of Sex Crimes Training, Charlottesville, VA, 6/15
NCSBN NCLEX Conference, Charlotte, NC, 9/14
Cardiovascular Conference, 4/12/14, Winchester, VA
Women’s Health Concerns, 1/26/14, Charlottesville, VA
NCSBN NCLEX Conference, Boston, MA September 2012
NLN Leadership Conference, 6/11, Baltimore, MD
Shenandoah Region Nurse Practitioner Conference, 5/13/2011, Waynesboro, VA
Cardiovascular Conference, 4/16/2011, Winchester, VA
Critical Care Conference, 10/15/2010, Winchester, VA National League for Nurses Annual Convention, 09/23-26/2009, Philadelphia, PA
Gestational Diabetes, 10/20/2009, Charlottesville, VA
Cardiovascular Conference, 04/17/2010, Winchester, VA
Shenandoah Region Nurse Practitioner Conference, 05/14/2010, Harrisonburg, VA
Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives, Fall Conference 10/2008
Pi Mu Professional Development Day, 3/30/2009
Pi Mu Professional Day 4/17/08

Testing Success Workshop for new Level 1 nursing students, 2015-16

Publication of _Madonna of the Rio Grande: Border Patrol in PRISM, Summer issue, 2009

Getting Here from There, BRCC Fine Arts Series, Blue Ridge Community College, September 21, 2010.

Still Bringing the Magnificat into the World, Gallery Presentation, Asbury United Methodist Church, December 5, 2010.

Contemporary Christian Art, (Invitational), September—December, 2011, The Savior Pastoral Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Madonna of the Milagros: Beanfield Wars Revisited, Madonna of the Dome: Ishmael and Isaac.

Juried Art Exhibition (National), May 29—June 30, 2011, Park Gables Gallery, VMRC. Homage to the Lords of Spin.

Still Bringing the Magnificat into the World, (Invitational), November 28, 2010 –January 2, 2011 Asbury United Methodist Church.

Faculty Art Show: Heart/Soul: (re)seeing the familiar. (Department of Visual and Communication Art), October 9—17.Eastern Mennonite University Hartzler Library Gallery.

EMU Visual and Communication Arts Faculty Show (Invitational), August 18—September 27,
2010, Blue Ridge Community College.

Beauchamp Gallery, Topkea, KS and Kansas City area, Annual Christian Themes Exhibit, Invitational, April – August, 2010 and throughout the central Kansas Catholic Archdioceses though August, 2010.

Juried Art Exhibition_(National), June 2010, VMRC. _Madonna of Mashrabeya: Hidden Virtues.

Juried Art Exhibition (National), June, 2009, VMRC. Madonna of the Milagros: Beanfield Wars Revisited.

We the Mennonites. (National) March 1 – 31, 2009, Juried. Black Walnut Gallery, Chicago, IL. Madonna of the Milagros: Beanfield Wars Revisited.

2009 Juried Biblical Art Exhibition. (National) White Stone Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, January 16 – February 15, 2009. Madonna of the Dome: Ishmael and Isaac and
Madonna of the Rio Grande: Border Patrol

Mary, Mary, Mary: Visions of Grace._(National) November 9 – December 24, 2008, Juried. Via Creativa Gallery, Virginia Beach, Virginia. _Madonna of the Dome: Ishmael and Isaac and Madonna of the Great Wave: Import/Export

Faculty Art Show (Department of Visual and Communication Art), Eastern Mennonite University Hartzler Library Gallery, October 11 – November 10, 2008. Madonna of Philae: Isis and Horus; Madonna of the Zabbalean: Garbage City; Madonna of Mashrabiya: Hidden Virtues; Bab el-Futuh; Wadi Natrun.

Honorable Mention for the mixed media art piece Madonna of the Dome: Ishmael and Isaac, Annual VMRC Art Exhibition, June, 2008

Juror, VMRC Annual National Art Exhibiton, May, 2007

Visiting Artist, Pathways Visual Arts Vocations Symposium, Papermaking Workshops, Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH. October 29-31, 2006

Solo Exhibit, Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH. October 29-November 17, 2006

Early Christian Art, Elective class, Park View Mennonite Church, March, 2012

_Art for Christmas, Park View Mennonite Church, December, 2011

The Annunciation in Art, Faith and Issues class, Park View Mennonite Church, December 2010

Art for Advent, Faith and Issues class, Park View Mennonite Church, December 2009

Hidden Symbols: Art of the Northern Renaissance, Shalom class, Park View Mennonite Church, 2009

Presentation on Egypt sabbatical, Park View Mennonite Church, July 2008 and VMRC October, 2008

Worship planner and leader, Mennonite Central Committee EME (Europe/Middle East) Retreat, Alexandria, Egypt, May 15-20, 2008

Church Council member, Park View Mennonite Church

Visual Arts Committee, member. Park View Mennonite Church

Choir Member. Park View Mennonite Church

American Craft Council, member

Modern and Contemporary Art, fall 2007

Lecture on Art and Healing, Graduate Bio Medicine course, 2014

Undergraduate Dean Search Committee, 2012-13

Lecture on Northern Renaissance art, Renaissance and Reformation History class, January 2011

Lecture on Gothic, Medieval, and Byzantine Art, Seminary, 2010, 2009

Lecture on Suffering in Art, Senior Seminar, Suffering, 2008

Lecture on artist Miriam Schapiro for Visual Communication Theory course, 2007

Committee on Teacher Education

Teacher Education Admissions Committee

General Education Curriculum Committee

Writing Committee

(2012, December 8). Organist, Festival of Lessons and Carols, The Madison Singers of James Madison University, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2012, December 2). Organist and piano accompanist, Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir Christmas Concert, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2012, April 15). Accompanist, Spring Preparatory Recital, Recital Hall, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2012, March 17 and 18). Preparatory choir accompanist, Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir Spring Concerts, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, December 10). Organist, Festival of Lessons and Carols, The Madison Singers of James Madison University, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, December 3 and 4). Organist and piano accompanist, Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir Christmas Concerts with the Washington Symphonic Brass, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, April 30). Organist, Eastern Mennonite Seminary Commencement, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, April 9 and 10). Preparatory choir accompanist, Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir Spring Concerts, Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, December 11). Organist, Festival of Lessons and Carols, The Madison Singers of James Madison University, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, December 4 and 5). Organist and piano accompanist, Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir Christmas Concerts, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, November 20). Organ soloist, November Gala Concert, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, November 14). Organ Rededication Recital, Salem Zion Mennonite Church, Freeman, SD

(2010, November 7). Organ Recital, Christian Fine Arts Series, Bahia Vista Mennonite Church, Sarasota, FL.

(2010, April 24). Organ accompanist, Daughter’s of Song Spring Concert, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, March 2). Organist in joint concert with student Maria Zehr, Midday Lenten Music Series, Asbury United Methodist Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2009, December 5 and 6). Organist and piano accompanist, Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir Christmas Concerts, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2009, November 20). Organist for “Finale” from Saint Saens Organ Symphony, James Madison University Brass Band Concert, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2008, December 6 and December 7). Organ soloist, Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir Christmas Concerts, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2008, November 22). Organist and organ continuo, Gala November Concert, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2007, November 17). Organ continuo, Gala November Concert, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2007, January 28). Organ Recital, Reith Recital Hall, Goshen College, Goshen, IN.

(2006, December 2 & 3). Organ accompanist for Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir and Washington Symphonic Brass Christmas Concert, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2006, October 29). Organ Recital, First Mennonite Church Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH.

(2006, October 7). Harpsichord Continuo performer with Joan Griffing, Violin. Recital fulfills Faculty Research Grant studying and performing music of the Baroque Era. Martin Chapel, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2013, June 2). Organist, Eastern Mennonite High School Commencement, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2013, April 27). Organist, Eastern Mennonite Seminary Commencement, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2013, January 6). Organist, Mennonite community Messiah Sing-along, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2012, December 16). Organ performance, Music for the Christmas season, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2012, June 3). Organist, Eastern Mennonite High School Commencement, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2012, April 28). Organist, Eastern Mennonite Seminary Commencement, Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2012, January 6). Organist, Mennonite community Messiah Sing-along, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, December 18). Organ Performance, Music for Advent/Christmas, Sunday School Hour, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, February 27). Organ Performance, Music for Christmas through Easter, Park View Mennonite Church Colloquy/Faith and Issues Sunday School class, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, January 21). Accompanist, People Helping People benefit concert, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2011, January 6). Organist, Messiah Sing-along, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, March 28). Organ Performance, Music for Christmas through Easter, Park View Mennonite Church Faith and Issues Sunday School class, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, January 6). Organist, Mennonite Community Messiah Sing-along, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2009, June 25). Organ demonstration for Interfaith Peace Camp, Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2009, February 26). Organ demonstration for “Father Bach meets Children,” Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

Unpublished Manuscripts

Brenneman, K.G. (2010). Nurturing creativity through the development of character strengths. Unpublished manuscript.

Brenneman, K.G. (2010). Agency and pathways thinking in college: Developing hopeful thinking by nurturing character strengths. Unpublished manuscript.

Brenneman, K.G. (2001). Adjustment and well-being of American internationally mobile adolescents in Korea. In F.J. (2005), Representative entries from “A Century of Doctoral Dissertations on Korea: An annotated Bibliography of studies in western languages, 1903-2000. (With an appendix of dissertations completed in 2001-2004).

Gates, J. & Brenneman, K.G. (2016). Do differences exist between social sciences and business majors in cultural sensitivity? Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Research in Adolescence, April 1, 2016, Baltimore, MD.

Brenneman, K.G. & Gates, J. (2015). Cross-cultural experiential learning as an approach to expanding cultural sensitivity. Poster presented at the 2015 Developmental Science Teaching Institute, March 18, 2015, Philadelphia, PA.

Brenneman, K.G. (2013). Building hopeful thinking by developing character strengths in a college classroom. Poster presented at the 2013 Society for the Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, April 19, 2013, Seattle, WA.

The flourishing field of positive psychology, Invited guest speaker, EMU Psychology Club, October 8, 2015.

Introduction to play therapy, Invited guest speaker, Developmental Psychology Case Study classes, February, 2015.

Flourishing field of positive psychology, Invited guest speaker, General Psychology classes, November, 2014.

Positive group leadership, Invited presenter at Leadership Conference, Eastern Mennonite University, September 29, 2012.

The flourishing field of positive psychology across the life-span, Invited guest speaker, General Psychology class, September, 2012 and January, 2013.

Introduction to play therapy, Invited guest speaker, Developmental Psychology Case Study class, January, 2013.

The flourishing field of positive psychology across the life-span, invited guest speaker, General Psychology class, January 30, 2012 and September 21, 2011.

Play: The work of the child, Invited guest speaker in Developmental Psychology Case Study, October 12, 2010.

Play: The work of the child, Invited guest speaker in Developmental Psychology Case Study, October 11, 2010.

The Flourishing Field of Positive Psychology, Invited guest lecture in General Psychology, September 24, 2010.

The Flourishing Field of Positive Psychology, Invited guest lecture in General Psychology, Eastern Mennonite University, February 3, 2010.

Developing Character Strengths, guest lecture in Developmental Psychology, Eastern Mennonite University, Fall 2009.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and its use in the counseling setting. Invited guest lecture in Psychological Testing and Assessment course, Eastern Mennonite University, October 27, 2008.

Play therapy and its use with young children. Invited guest lecture in Developmental Psychology Case Study, Eastern Mennonite University, VA, October 7, 2008.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Two hour introductory workshop for Adult Degree Completion Program (ADCP), Eastern Mennonite University, VA, October 6, 2008.

Play therapy and its use with young children. Invited guest lecture in Developmental Psychology Case Study, Eastern Mennonite University, VA, October 6, 2008.

Brenneman, K.G. Ecological transitions and their influence on development. Invited guest lecture in General Psychology course, Eastern Mennonite University, September 2006.

Benefits of light therapy. Invited guest lecture in Physiological Psychology course, Eastern Mennonite University, Spring 2006.

Understanding your developmental niche, invited guest lecture in General Psychology, Eastern Mennonite University, Fall 2005.

Actions & Perceptions, invited guest lecture at Royals Society meeting, Eastern Mennonite University, Fall 2005.

Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX, April 5-8, 2017.

_Developmental Science Teaching Institute), Austin, TX, April 4, 2017.

2015-16
_Society for Research in Adolescence (SRA), Baltimore, MD, March 31-April 2.

2014-15
Developmental Science Teaching Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 18, 2015.

_Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Philadelphia, PA. March 19-21, 2015.

2013-14
_Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) _ Biannual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 3-6, 2014.

2012-2013
Developmental Science Teaching Institute, Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 17, 2013.

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Conference, Seattle, WA, April 18-20, 2013.

Love, 2.0, Positive Psychology Leadership Series, International Positive Psychological Association, webinar with Barbara Fredrickson, March 18, 2013.

The Myths of Happiness, Positive Psychology Leadership Series, International Positive Psychological Association, webinar with Sonja Lyubomirsky, February 20, 2013.

School for Leadership Training, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, EMU, January 22-23, 2013.

Gratitude, Positive Psychology Leadership Series, International Positive Psychological Association, webinar with Robert Emmons, November 28, 2012.

2012-2013
Topics in Psychology: Positive Psychology

2014- Undergraduate Council, Member 2017
2014- Cross-cultural Committee, Member 2017
2014- MA in Biomedicine Admissions Committee Member 2017

Hershberger, A.(2005). A Living Faith Response to

Abortion. Connections. Virginia Mennonite

Conference. Harrisonburg.

Hershberger, A. (2005). Godless medicine. [Review of the

book Godless Medicine]. _Family and Community

Health_,28(1).96.

Hershberger, A. (2005). Delivering health care in America:

A systems approach.[Review of the book Delivering

health care in America: A systems approach].

Family and Community Health,28(1).97-8.

Hershberger, A., (2004). Missionary Nursing: Dispelling the

Myths. _Journal of Christian Nursing_(21)1, 4-9.

Hershberger, A. (2004). The Leaving. _College Faith 2: 150

Christian Leaders and Educators Share Faith

Stories from Their Student Days._ 16. Andrews

University Press.

Hershberger, A. (2004). Carrying Tortillas into the Ivory

Tower and Theories into Mud Houses; Connecting

Competing Realities Along the Path of Service. In

Development to a Different Drummer. 85-96. Good

Books.

Hershberger, A. (2004) Enhancing our Mentoring Culture:

A position statement and strategic plan for Student

Advising and Mentoring at Eastern Mennonite

University. Written for the Lilly Project Mentoring

workshops.

Hershberger, A., (2003). Mennonite Nurses in WWII:

Maintaining the Thread of Pacifism in Nursing.

_Nursing History Review_(11)147-166.

We do more harm than good. The paradoxes of global health mission or education trips. Fall Pi Mu Nursing Honor Society meeting. Harrisonburg, VA.October, 2014.

_Health promoters as practitioners: Lessons from Guatemala._Co-submitter with MSN student. (peer reviewed) American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. November, 2013.

_Practical Peacemaking: Restorative justice approaches for families in community._Presentation at the International Institute for Islamic Studies in Qom, Iran. February, 2014.

Difficult Conversations Involving Major Trust Barriers An all day workshop for the Ethics Consultation Core Curriculum Practical Session at Bon Secours Health Care System in Richmond, Virgina, September 18, 2012.

More with less: Using a developing case study to teach informatics and epidemiology Peer review podium presentation at American Association of Colleges of Nursing Master’s Conference. March 1-3, 2012. San Antonio, TX.

_Scarcity results in strength: Degree collaboration and interprofessionality._Peer review podium presentation at American Association of Colleges of Nursing Master’s Conference. March 1-3, 2012. San Antonio, TX.

Nursing students’ partnership with Eritrean refugees Peer reviewed. Academic Community Partnerships roundtable presentation. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. October 29 – November 2, 2011. Washington, DC.

Desert Sands to Mountain Snow: Nursing Students’ Partnership with Eritrean Refugees Presentation at Pi Mu Regional Scholarship Day, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, April 12,2011.

Cross Cultural Attachment: Elements Affecting the Student/Host Family Bond Breakout session presented with Don Clymer at the EMU Attachment Conference. April 1, 2011.

Water Availability and Access in Palestine: Public Health at Risk. Presentation at American Public Health Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA November, 2009

Do No Harm: Development and Mutual Learning in Cross Cultural Exchanges in Central America. (with Emma Mitchell). UVA School of Nursing International Forum. October, 2009

The Last Taboo: Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Church. (With Jan Butcher and Pearl Hoover.) School for Leadership Training. Eastern Mennonite Seminary. January 2008.

Primary Health Care: Revival of the Alma Ata Declaration. Presentation at American Public Health Association annual meeting, Washington , DC. November, 2007

Collaboration between National NGOs and International Donors: Possibilities and Pitfalls. International Rural Development conference. Messiah College. February, 2007

Voices from the Field: Guided interview with Matt Gnagey in Banda Acheh, Indonesia. International Rural Development conference. Messiah College. February, 2007

Integrating Study Abroad into the General Education Curriculum.Council for International Education Exchange. Seville, Spain. November, 2005

_Partnership Challenges: Relationships among Health Organizations, Communities, and Donor Agencies_. Global Heath Council Annual Conference (peer reviewed). Washington, DC.June 3. 2005,

_Challenges in Education: Developing a Nursing Conceptual Framework Consistent with the Mission of a Christian University_. Co-presented with Arlene Wiens. Doctoral Alumni Scholarship Day, University of Virginia.March, 2005.

Four session series on Medical Ethics.Beldor Mennonite Church, Elkton, VA. July and August, 2005.

Planned and led Workshop for EMU Global Village Shared Curriculum Teaching Teams. August 2005.

A Sacred Covenant: Nursing in the context of Micah 6:8. Co-presented with Don Tyson. Mennonite Health Assembly, San Francisco, 2004.

Sharing the Journey: Faith based University/Community partnerships as a strategy to improve health.. Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Society Scholarship conference. James Madison University. April 2004.

2015 MCC Relief Sale Kickoff Dinner speaker. Harrisonburg Mennonite Church.

2015 Presentation Siblings as Friends Lindale Mennonite Church.

2015 Women’s Retreat Input. Early Church. Harrisonburg, VA

2015 Sermon. Early Church, Harrisonburg, VA

2014-15 Worship Leader: Early Church. Harrisonburg, VA

2014 Keynote speaker. Donor Banquet. Gift and Thrift. Harrisonburg, VA

2014 Approaches to Violence for Sunday School and Worship at Mt. Clinton Mennonite Church.

2014 MCC leaders tour to Iran

2014 MC USA “Kairos: Come and See” tour to Israel/Palestine.

2014 Presentation Iran and Palestine at Gift and Thrift volunteer banquet.

2013. Capitol Hill and State Department visits to advocate for cessation of military aid to Colombia.

2012 Sermon. Springdale Mennonite Church, Stuarts Draft, VA. May 26.

2012 MYF Sunday School Class (Immigration) Springdale Mennonite Church, May

2012 Sermon. Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA. January 15.

2009-2010. Member, Anabaptist Health Advocacy working group. Convened by MCC regarding Health Care Reform.

2006-2012. MCC Binational Executive Committee. Joint Board Team responsible for MCC New Wine, New Wineskins Re-visioning and reorganization completed in 2012.

1996-2008. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) East Coast. Chairperson; Chaired Strategic Plan committee 2003-2005, Executive Director search 2006-07.

Local Community Service

2014 Presentation Reflections on Women Leaders around the World Women’s leadership gathering. Harrisonburg, VA.

2013-15 Member of task force for Community Health Promoter project (Harrisonburg Community Health Center, Public Health Department, Sentara RMH, Refugee Resettlement, JMU, Promotoras)

April 14, 2014. Presentation “A life of connecting with the poor” at New Community Place, Harrisonburg, VA.

2010. Director for for GrandAides community health worker grant funded project of EMU/Harrisonburg Community Health Center.

2009-10. Planning group member and grant reviewer for Health Care for the Homeless project in Harrisonburg. Start up date: January 2011.

2001-present. Harrisonburg Rockingham Health Community Council (HCC). 2002-2004 – Member of subcommittee to shape the indicators and determine follow-up for the Community Assessment; 2006- 2007. Present. Member of Summit planning committee and Health Access task force

Regional/National Professional Service
2015 Reviewed twenty two abstracts for the APHA Annual meeting for IH and PHN sections.

2015 Article review for Public Health Nursing.

2014 Book review for FA Davis: _ Health Promotion: Translating the Evidence into Practice._

2014 Reviewed (blind) two articles for Public Health Nursing

2005- present. Member of International Committee of the Public Health Nursing Section of the American Public Health Association. This group plans a major session for the annual APHA meeting.

2008. Pi Mu Chapter Nursing Honor Society. Vice President from EMU. Abstract review and selection, Co-Coordinated scholarship day.

2007. Culturally Competent Care. 3 hour workshops presented to Virginia State Public Health Department staff in Central Shenandoah District (Verona) and Lord Fairfax District (Winchester).

2007. Article reviewer for Meta analysis of child health studies for the Community Based Primary Care Special Interest Group of the American Public Health Association.

International Professional Service

2008. Program evaluation. Associación de Servicios de Cooperación Indigena- Mennonita. Paraguay.

2008. Facilitator. Appreciative Inquiry process(3 days- 25 people). MCC Latin America. Managua, Nicaragua.

2008. Facilitator. Appreciative Inquiry process (1 day- 80 people). MCC Binational staff. Akron, PA.

2000- 2007. Volunteer consultant with the School of Nursing at the Polytechnic University in Managua, Nicaragua relative to their research center, outreach clinic, and masters program.

1994, 2000. Program reviewer. MCC programs in Kenya, Honduras.

Phyllis J. Verhonick dissertation Award for 2001, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Brodie Scholars Endowment Award, University of Virginia, October 2000.

John Horsh Mennonite History Essay contest, 1st place in Seminary or Graduate division for paper, “ Other ways in which we can serve: Mennonite nurses in World War II” . 2001.

Miller Erb Fund Study Grant, Mennonite Health Association, 1997-98, 1998-99.

First Place, Doctoral Nursing Student Poster, “Other Ways We Can Serve: Mennonite Nurses and World War II” American Public Health Association. Fall 1998.

Graduate and Undergraduate adviser (20 students)

BMX Graduate Student research committee (1 student)

Humanitarian Action Leadership Proposal task force (chair)

Faculty Status Committee

Cross Cultural Committee

IEP Scholarship Committee

Max Villatoro Vigil. Speaker.

Search Committee: PXD Community Development position

Search Committee: CJP RJ position

Presentation _ Faith Mentoring_ Tuesday Luncheon

TGIW presentation with Jim Yoder. Faith and Vocation: Mentoring Students.

Flash Seminar. Doing good or harm in international medical care.

Honors Weekend Dinner with Applicants

ACRS Breakfast: Approaching the 2020 Centennial: MCC as a true binational partnership

Fall Faculty meeting Faith journey

Hosted several EMU nursing events at Hershberger Barn

"Building Peace in Complex Contexts of Psychosocial Trauma," in " Healing and Peacebuilding After War: Transforming Trauma in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Routledge, London and New York, 2020.

“Dignity in Negotiation: Its Transforming Power.” Handbook of International Negotiation: Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Diplomatic Perspectives. M. Galluccio (ed). Springer 2015.

“Psychosocial peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina: approaches to relational and social change.” Intervention: Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas.” March 2014, Volume 12, Number 1.

“Integrating Principles and Practices of Customary Law, Conflict Transformation and Restorative Justice in Somaliland.” African Peace and Conflict Journal, Volume 3 Number 2 December 2010.

“Transforming Conflict: Creating Spaces for Change, in “No Enemy to Conquer—Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World.” Michael Henderson (ed), Baylor University Press. Spring 2009

“Psychosocial Interventions after Large-scale Violence, War and Natural Disaster.” MCC Peace Office News Letter, Spring 2009.

“Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies” (ed.). University Press of America. 2008

“The Role of Hospitality in healing trauma and building peace after acts of violence and war.” Center for Justice and Peacebuilding Web Journal, May/June 2007.

“Moral Foundations for Democracy: A human development programme.” Handbook for Trainers. Second Edition: August 2006. Printed in the UK. (New edition, Spring 2009).

“Articulating the Nexus between peace building and MHPSS towards enhanced inter-sectoral coordination.” Healing Communities, Transforming Society: Exploring the interconnectedness between psycho-social needs, practice and peace building. Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 6-8, 2015.

“Identity-informed Theories and Methods of Change: Transforming the Tangible and Intangible Aspects of Post-war Conflicts.” A paper prepared for the IPSA World Congress, Madrid, Spain July 2012.

“Dignity and Conflict Transformation,” presentation made at the Human Security Conference in Caux, Switzerland, July 2012.

“Foundations of Peace and Conflict, “ a course taught in the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies,” University of Hargeisa, Somaliland, March-April, 2010.

“Gandhian Principles in Action.” Keynote address to the Global Nonviolence Student Conference, James Madison University. April 16, 2010.

“Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies.” A workshop for Grinnell College faculty members. May 19-22, 2009.

“Trauma Healing and Peacebuilding.” Georgetown University. April 7, 2009

“The Relationship between Traumatic Events and Identity Threats,” and “Sustaining the Care Giver.” Key note presentations given at the MCC Global Conference on Trauma and Community Recovery Capacitiy Building, Salatiga, Indonesia. September 8-13, 2008.

“The Peacebuilding Wheel and Trauma Healing: An integrated model.” JMU Class on Nonviolence. April 9, 2008.

“Conflict Transformation.” Lecture given at the University of Hargeisa, Somaliland. March 31, 2008.

“Peacebuilding: An Integrated Model.” Lecture given at the University of Hargeisa, Somaliland. March 24, 2008

“Trauma Healing and Reconciliation.” Lecture and workshop for Coptic Orthodox priests. Anafora, Egypt. March 11, 2008

“Trauma Healing and Reconciliation.” Lecture for Coptic Orthodox community. Beni Seuf, Egypt. March 10, 2008

“Trauma Healing” CEOSS workshops. Alexandria, Egypt. March 3-8, 2008.

“Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies: The Peacebuilding Wheel Model.” University of Denver conference on Peacebuilding and Trauma Recovery: Integrated Strategies in Post-war Reconstruction.” February 22-24, 2007.

“Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies: Dealing with Humiliation.” Conference on Humiliation and Peace at Columbia University, December 14-16, 2006.

“The Role of Hospitality in Healing Trauma and Building Peace.” Tools for Change conference in Caux, Switzerland. July 24, 2006.

Consultant, process facilitator and workshop presenter for the Human Security conference in Caux Switzerland. July, 2009.

President of the Board of Directors, Community Mediation Center of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County and Greater Augusta (County). Elected April 2007. Term ended April 2008.

Honored for 15 years of service to Eastern Mennonite University. May 2012.

Honored for 24 years of service to Eastern Mennonite University. May 2021

Faculty Senate Graduate representative to the President’s Cabinet 2010-2012.

Member of EMU’s Strategic Planning Council, 2010-2012.

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding representative to EMU’s Graduate Council 2009-2012.

Photograph. O Magazine (2017, March, 113).

Writing Icons. Purpose (2012, April).

Loving-kindness (Painted icon, 2011). The Canadian Mennonite. (2011, April 18). [Cover photograph].

Mary with Tears (photograph). The Canadian Mennonite. (2011, April 18, 16).

Daughters. (digitography) Christians in the Visual Arts 2009-2010 Directory. (2009, 95).

Dry and Weary. (digitography) The Christian Century. (2009, March 24, 47).

Dry and Weary, The Christian Century, March 24, 2009, Vol. 126, No. 6, pg. 47

[Cover photograph]. The Mennonite. (2008, April 15)

[three photographs published]. Hasselblad Forum, 02, 47 (a three-language international master photography magazine published in Sweden).

Laments for an Age of Sexualized Power. Workshop. (offered twice.) AMBS Church Leadership Center.  (2018) 

Masterclass: Multi Multi-story.  KRENI Conference of Creative Industries. Niš, Serbia (2017)

Multi-Media: Stories, Myths, Symbols.  KRENI Conference of Creative Industries. Niš, Serbia (2017)

Multi-media Campaigns.  KRENI Conference of Creative Industries. Niš, Serbia (2017)

Photography as a Tool for Social Analysis.  University Metropolitan. Niš, Serbia (2017)

Multi-media in Everyday Life.  American Corner (sponsored by US embassy). Niš, Serbia (2017)

Laments: Discoveries in the Process of Art Making, Seasons of the Soul: Worship and Arts Symposium, Bethel College, North Newton. KS. (2017)

Shattered Spaces and Truth-telling, {Convocation}, Bethel College, North Newton. KS. (2017)

Laments for an Age of Sexualized Power: Discoveries in the Process of Art Making. {colloquium] Eastern Mennonite University. Harrisonburg, Virginia. (2016)

Anabaptism in a Visual Age. {keynote address] Anabaptist Communicators Conference. Harrisonburg, Virginia. (2011)

In the land of Mary: exploring a Franciscan sculptor and Orthodox icons in post-Soviet Lithuania. Conference:My Spirit Rejoices in God, My Savior: Mary in Anabaptist Dress. Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries. Elkhart, Indiana. (2011)

Attachment and the Process of Documentary Filmmaking. (with Moore, P). Conference: Conversations on Attachment. Eastern Mennonite University. Harrisonburg. (2011)

Immersion and Framing: Teaching, Living and Image-Making in Lithuania. Colloquium. Eastern Mennonite University. Harrisonburg. (2010)

Entertainment: The Ideal Fetish to Accompany Cultural Homogeny at the Conference: Responses to Cultural Homogeny: Engagement, Resistance or Passivity, LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania, ( 2010)

Documentary Production Ethics and Issues, Screening/Class/Open Forum, Roberts Wesleyan University (2008)

U2 Romeo and Juliet, (2022)   (co-writer, music director, visual director) Eastern Mennonite University Mainstage Theater

Bonhoeffer: Cell 92, (2022) (co-writer, director of cinematography) Mainstage Theater, Eastern Mennonite University. Harrisonburg, VA.

• Eastern Mennonite University Mainstage Theater
• Court Square Theater
• Asbury United Methodist Church
• Vienna Community Church, Vienna, Austria
• Austro-American Institute of Education, Vienna, Austria
• New City Wien, Vienna, Austria

Art & Photography Exhibitions, Juried/Selected:

Stranger, Dry, New Day (three pieces in group show). (2017)  ReFORMation. Dadian Gallery.  Washington. D.C.

Blamed, Shamed Abandoned. Crossing the Line (curated, group exhibit). (2017) Margaret Martin Gehman Gallery.  [paint, photographic ink transfers]. Harrisonburg, VA

United? in Cherry Bounce (group show, 2016). William King Museum of Art. [paint, photographic ink transfers]. Abingdon, VA.

Wind of the Spirit, Fire in the Bones and Named, in Art and Text: Images, Concepts and Insights (A juried three-year traveling exhibition limited to twelve artists). [Digitography prints on canvas]. (opening January 2009) Washington, D.C: Christians in the Visual Arts

Art & Photography Exhibitions and Installations:

Remnants of Hell, Traces of Hope. Margaret Martin Gehman Gallery. Harrisonburg, VA. (2019)

• Sensing the Remnants. [Monochrome photography.]
• Remnants 1, 2 & 3. [Acrylic paint.]
• Genocide. Collaboration. Hate. [Digitography.]
• War. Nationalism. Rape.  [Dyptich, digitography.]
• Torture. Paranoia. Betrayal. [Digitography.]
• 2160. [Installation, found object sculpture, video.]
• Imago Sui: Becoming Self. [Acrylic paint, gold-leaf.] 
• Surrounded: A Rosary of Hope. [68-panel, photographic transfer.]
• Blood in My Veins, Freedom Dove, How Can I Sing, Daria’s Spin. [original music, guitar, bouzouki, voice.]

7×7: Laments for an Age of Sexualized Power (2016) [Sixty-panel, paint and composite photographic ink transfers]

• Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, IN. (2018-present)
• Luyken Fine Arts Center, North Newton, Kansas (2017)
• Transformation Festival. New York, NY
• Gehman Gallery, Harrisonburg VA.
• Dadian Gallery, Luce Center For Art and Religion, Washington, DC.

Journey [multiple image]. 2017 Asbury United Methodist Church. Harrisonburg, VA.

Traces of a Social Movement: The Baltic Way (2014)

• European Union House. Riga. Latvia.
• LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
• Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Chicago. IL.
• Gehman Gallery, Harrisonburg VA.

Into the Window [7 painted/gilded icons. 4 interpretive panels]. Asbury United Methodist Church. Harrisonburg, VA (2014)

Hodegetria [painted icon, installation]. The Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Christian Church, Harrisonburg. (2012).

God With Us [four-panel dalle-verre stained glass installation] Immanuel Mennonite Church (2012)

The Blessing Christ [painted icon, Seminary Senior Gift]. Eastern Mennonite Seminary, prayer room. (2011)

Into the Window, Margaret E. Gehman Gallery, EMU, (2010-11)

the magnificat, in group show, Mary: Still Bringing the Magnificat into the World, Asbury United Methodist Church, Harrisonburg, (2010)

Baltic Infrared Images, Faculty Group Show, Hartzler Library Gallery, EMU, (2010)

Baltic Infrared Images, Faculty Group Show, Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, (2010)

With Pleasure, With Meaning, Curator, Neufeld Gallery, LCC International University, Klaipeda Lithuania, (2010)

What the Eye Can’t See: Infrared Images from the Baltics, Neufeld Gallery, LCC International University, Klaipeda Lithuania, (2009)

??Broken??(a dalle-verre stained glass cross 12’ by 6’) commissioned for Mennonite Youth Convention stage, Columbus Ohio, 2009

Mary, (nine-piece digitographic show), EMU Hartzler Library Gallery, VACA Faculty Show, October, 2007

With Mary, (eleven-piece digitographic show in progress), Immanuel Mennonite Church, 2007

Art of the Call, (seven-piece digitographic show), Philadelphia Mennonite High School (permanent installation),2006, Eastern Mennonite Seminary (permanent installation), 2006

On the Way, (nine-piece digitographic show), Immanuel Mennonite Church (permanent installation), 2004,
EMU, Lehman Auditorium (permanent installation), 2005

Video
Ex. Producer, Persist: The EMU Triathlon Team.  2020.

Ex. Producer, No Longer Theory. 2019

Video Designer & Video Director. Distant Witness (original theater production). Mainstage Theater, Eastern Mennonite University. Harrisonburg, VA.

Reflections of a Traveler (6-short visual meditations) School for Leadership Training, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, 2009

Ex. Producer, 90th Anniversary Video, 2007
Ex. Producer, the Value of Experience (Vietnam CC) 2007
Ex. Producer, LEAP 2007, LEAP 2006, LEAP 2005, LEAP 2004

Journey Toward Forgiveness, Dir./Prod. Jerry Holsopple, ABC, 2001, Hallmark Channel, 2003, 2008, DVD (and three supplemental videos), 2001

• United States International Film Festival: Second Place—Silver Screen Award (2001)
• The Videographer Awards: Award of Excellence (2001)

Rhythms of Peace
Producer, director, editor, writer, animator, original music (3 editions) (1997-2000) DVD, 2006

• The Communicator Awards: Crystal Award of Excellence (2000,1997)
• Telly Awards: Bronze (2000)

Beyond the News
Producer, writer, editor for the first 11 editions in this series (1993-2000) DVD (five compilations), 2006

Cloud of Witnesses
Producer, writer, editor (3 international editions) 1996-1997

Turning Toward Jesus (4 videos & 120 page book)
Producer, writer, editor for this 16-session curriculum (box illustration art) 1995

Shalom Lifestyles: Whole People Whole Earth (2 videos & 2 books) Producer, writer, editor for this 15-session curriculum (two multi-part videos). 1991, 1992

Fisheyes (7 video series) Producer, director, editor, 1995

Internet

Thirdway Cafe,
Conceptualized, designed, and programmed the original Mennonite Media site, site has moved to other sponsors

Journey Toward Forgiveness, graphic design, no longer live

Peer Reviewer: CIES (Fulbright Scholars), 2011, 2012, 2013

Mennonite Youth Convention: Live video production/ summary videos, director, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009

Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant, 2021, (with Rebecca Slough)

Marpeck Deans Grant, 2021-22, for video documentary production, (with Rebecca Slough)

Marpeck Deans Grant, 2021, for traveling exhibit of art from Voices Together hymnal, (with group of artists led by Rachel Epp Buller)

Certificate of Merit for Video Design, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, 2016

Artist in Residence, The Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC (2015)

Fulbright Scholar, 2009-2010, LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania

Selected Awards(for video production and internet site design)

• The Communicator Awards: Crystal Award of Excellence & Crystal Award of Distinction
• Telly Awards: Winner and Bronze
• United States International Film: Silver Screen Award
• U.S. Industrial Film and Video Festival: Certificate for Creative Excellence
• The Videographer Awards: Award of Excellence & Award of Distinction

Hyrid Storyrtelling

Documentary Photography
Cinema and Visual Communication Theory
Color Photography
Contemporary Religious Imagination (EMS)

Faculty Status Committee
Faculty Scholarship Committee

Cross-Cultural Committee

Intellectual Life Committee
Centennial Planning Committee
Attachment Conference Technology

Hurst, C.G. (2020). Reckoning with hate: Faithful routes away from the Charlottesville rally.  Social Work & Christianity, 47(1). 15-30. DOI: 10.34043/swc.v47i1.132

Hurst, C.G. (2018, May).  Negotiating Boundaries: What is mine? What is Yours? Timbrel.  Mennonite Women USA.

Hurst, C.G., Reno, R., & Lefmann, T. (2018).  Committing to breastfeeding in social work.  Social Work, 63(3), 252–260.  https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swy028

Hurst, C.G. (2014) Providing Effective Clinical Supervision: An intensive clinic for clinical supervisors.        Corporate University of Providence. On-demand professional Continuing Education course.  Providence Service Corporation.

Hurst, C.G. (2014).  Making Parenting Matter: Part1. Relias Learning. On-demand Professional Continuing Education course. Relias Learning Management System.

Hurst, C.G. (2012).  Sexual or maternal breasts? A feminist view on the contested right to breastfeed in public. Book chapter in Hall Smith, P; Hausman, B.L., & Labbok, M. (Eds.) Beyond Health, Beyond Choice: Breastfeeding Constraints and Realities (333-347). Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Singley, D.B., and Hurst, C.G. (2011). Comparing E-Learning, Tele-Classes, and Live Trainings:  An Analysis of Cost and Training Effectiveness [White paper]. Retrieved from http://essentiallearning.com/white_papers.htm. (available by request)

Hurst, C.G. (2009, abstract).  Encouraging and discouraging breastfeeding: Relational odysseys concerning mothers’ milk.  Breastfeeding Medicine: Journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 4(4), 246. ISSN: 1556-8253.

Hurst, C.G.  (2007). Addressing breastfeeding disparities in social work. Health & Social Work, 32(3) 207-210. DOI: 10.1093/hsw/32.3.207

Hurst, C.G.  (2006). Clinical social work: Beyond generalist practice with individuals, groups, and families.  Perspectives on Social Work, 4(1), 34-36.  Available at:          http://www.uh.edu/gssw/prospectivestu/phd/perspectives.htm

Hurst, C.G. (2024, October 11). Beyond Borders Compassion, Competency & Action North American Association of Christians in Social Work (NACSW) 74th Annual Convention.  ‘That your days may be long’: Stories of Home-based Family  Caregivers.  Dallas, TX.

Hurst, C.G. (2024, March 20). Eastern Mennonite University Colloquium.  Love & duty in the final chapter: Experiences of home-based caring for family elders. Harrisonburg, VA.

Inker, J. & Hurst, C.G. (2019, April 29). Virginia Geriatric Society Annual Conference Winds of  Change: Geriatric Care in 2019.  Oral Presentation: Ageist bias: How common is it among professionals & patients. Richmond, VA.

Hurst, C.G. & Lefmann, T. (2018, November 11). Council on Social Work Education 2018 Annual Program Meeting: Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 2018 APM: Expanding Interprofessional Education to Achieve Social Justice.  Oral Presentation in the Health Track: Committing to breastfeeding in social work: Applying core values. Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida.

Hurst. C.G. (2018, June 6).  Marpeck Conference. Session 3—Speaking and Silencing in Academy & Community. Charlottesville response to right-wing rally: Case study on power and community. Canadian Mennonite University. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Hurst, C.G., Singley, D. (2012, January). Comparing continuing education distance learning formats versus live workshop for a making parenting matter training course.  Presentation at the 2012 Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) Conference: Research That Makes A Difference: Advancing Practice and Shaping Public Policy. Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington, DC.

Hurst, C.G., Singley, D., & Sampson, A. (2011, August). _Teaching an Organization to Fish-Learning and ROI Results from a Blended Training Effectiveness Study._Presentation at the 2011 American Psychological Association Annual Meeting. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC.

Hurst, C.G., (2010, March). Sexual or maternal breasts? A feminist view on the contested right to breastfeed in public. Presentation at the 5th Symposium on Breastfeeding and Feminism: Informing Public Health Approaches. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. Hosted by: Center for Women’s Health and Wellness, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Hurst, C. G., (2009, November). Encouraging and discouraging breastfeeding: Relational odysseys concerning mothers’ milk. Poster presentation at the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 14th Annual International Meeting “Lessons from History, Implications for Tomorrow” Williamsburg, Virginia.

Hurst, C. G., (2009, March). Sexual perception as a constraint on low-income mothers’breastfeeding choices. Poster presentation at the 4th Symposium on Breastfeeding and Feminism From Birthplace to Workplace. University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hurst, C.G., (2009, January). Constraints on breastfeeding choices for low-income mothers. Presentation at the 13th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR); Research that Promotes Sustainability & (Re)Builds Strengths. New Orleans, LA.

Bickman, L., Douglas-Kelley, S., Walsh, T., Hurst, C.G., Casey, S. (2008, May). Real change in the real world is real hard: Improving client outcomes. Session at 38th Annual Conference of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts.

Walsh, T., Hurst, C.G., Mitchell, R., & Laverty, F. (2007, November). Practice-based evidence and CFIT (Contextualized Feedback Intervention Training). Workshop at the 31st Virginia Juvenile Justice Institute Partnering for Better Outcomes for Court-Involved Children. Roanoke, Virginia.

Hurst, C.G., (2007, May). Encouraging and Discouraging Breastfeeding: Relational Odysseys Concerning Mothers’ Milk. Presentation at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hurst, C.G., (2007, May). The EPA in My Backyard: An Auto-Ethnography of Poisoned Earth. Presentation at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hurst, C.G. (2007, April). Sexual Perception as a Constraint on Low-Income Mothers’ Breastfeeding Choice. Poster Session at Women’s Health Research Day. Sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women’s Health. Medical College of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia.

Hurst, C.G. (2006, November). Socio-cultural Constraints on Low Income Mothers’ Breastfeeding Choices. Poster presentation at VCU Institute for Women’s Health All About You: Advances in Women’s Health Research 2006. Jefferson-Lakeside Country Club Richmond, VA.

Howell, M., Hurst, C.G., & Leisey, M.R. (2006, May). Co-creating social justice in the classroom: A Gadamerian approach to teaching. Presentation at the Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hurst, C.G. (2006, March). Socio-cultural constraints on low income breastfeeding choices. Presentation at the First Virginia Graduate Research Policy Forum. Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Hurst, C.G. (2006, February). Constraints on the breastfeeding choices of low income mothers: A pilot study. Poster Session at the 52nd Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. Chicago, Illinois.

Howell, M., Leisey, M.R., & Hurst, C.G. (2006, February). Co-creating social justice in the classroom: A Gadamerian approach to teaching. Special Session at the 52nd Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. Chicago, Illinois.

Hurst, C.G. (5/2018-2024). Council On Social Work Education (CSWE) site visitor.  CSWE-accredited baccalaureate and master's social work programs host site visits as an integral part of the reaffirmation process. Conduct one visit per year to other programs on behalf of the CSWE Board of Accreditation (BOA) to gather objective information to inform reaffirmation of accreditation decisions. Travel to schools to discuss questions and gather information from program for BOA.   Write and submit detailed reports to the school and the CSWE accreditation specialists.

Hurst, C.G. (7/2024-current). Support Committee-Beloved Community Charlottesville Charlottesville Friends Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting Religious Society of Friends, Charlottesville, VA.  In the tradition of Friends, at times a particular Friend is recognized to have a spiritual gift.  Charlottesville Friends have recorded a public minister for uprooting racism in Charlottesville, VA.  I serve on the support committee for her ministry with Beloved Community Charlottesville a grass roots organization working to create social change and reflect on history while bringing people together in hope. https://www.belovedcommunity-cville.com/about-us.html

Hurst, C.G. (5/2023-current). Member & Clerk, Ministry & Worship Committee, Charlottesville Friends Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting Religious Society of Friends, Charlottesville, VA.  Serve on the committee providing support for spiritual life of community via nurture of ministry & facilitation of concerns with silent worship practices for the meeting.

Hurst. C.G. (2018, July 26).  Mennonite Women USA/Dove’s Nest.  Empowering Women: Claiming Healthy Personal Boundaries. Speaker for An Intergenerational Gathering to Provide Practical Resources and Support on Healthy Boundary Management for Girls Ages 13–18 and Women of All Ages. Sessions: Finding Your Voice; Celebrating Self. Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Omaha, Nebraska

Hurst, C.G. (2016, October).  Virginia Social Work Education Consortium (VSWEC) Fall 2016 VSWEC Rally in the Valley: Engaging Government with Social Work Values.  Facilitator of Panel Discussion on Graduate Program Applications with representatives of ten graduate programs in Social Work

Hurst, C.G. (2016, March).  You are the key to unlock the door for the next generation: Field education in social work.   Invited guest speaker for Social Work staff at Western State Hospital, along with Dorothy Harriman of James Madison University & Doris Dodson of Mary Baldwin College Social Work Departments.  Western State Hospital, Staunton, Virginia.

Hurst, C.G. (2015, May). Ethics and boundary concerns for school social workers. Invited Guest Speaker for Spring 2015 Meeting of the Valley Visiting Teacher/School Social Work Association. Front Royal, Virginia.

Hurst, C.G. (2015, April). Let’s talk about suicide. Facilitated conversation for members processing experiences with suicidal thoughts or suicide grief in a Connections session sponsored by Overseers’ committee of Charlottesville Friends Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting Religious Society of Friends. Charlottesville, VA.

Member, Institutional Effectiveness Committee. 2017-2019

Member, Washington Community Scholars Center (WCSC) Advisory Council, 2015-2018.

(Other Cummulative send request for a complete list.)
Professional Convention Symposia: 29
Professional Convention Posters: 14
Professional Workshops presented: 11

Lehman, G.R., Penny Power 2010: Supporting children’s
    ministries in Albania and Italy.
    A promotional DVD for VMM projects. Virginia
    Conference Assembly (Raleigh, NC) June, 2010.

Lehman, G.R., Virginia Mennonite Missions Responds to
    the Haiti Earthquake: January 12, 2010
    A promotional DVD showing VMM relief work
    in Haiti. (Harrisonburg, VA) February, 2010.

Lehman, G.R., _Mennonite Church of Trinidad and Tobago
    honor the Life and Ministry of Dr. Richard Keeler: To
    God be the Glory._ DVD reviewing the life work of
    Dr. Keeler. Annual General Meeting of MCTT.
    (Chaguanas, Trinidad). August 2009.

Lehman, G.R., Penny Power 2009: Supporting Deaf
    Ministries. promotional DVD for VMM projects.
    Virginia Conference Assembly. (Harrisonburg, VA).
    July 2009.

Lehman, G.R., Albanian Christian School. promotional DVD
    for work of Virginia Mennonite Missions.
    Virginia Conference Assembly. (Harrisonburg, VA).
    July 2009.

Lehman, G.R., Tre Giovani Pagazzi Italiani. DVD showing
    work of Chris Riddle Family. (Harrisonburg, VA).
    July 2009.

Lehman, G.R., Nice Family in Jamaica. Fund Raising DVD,
    preparing for serving in Jamaica.
    (Harrisonburg, VA). March 2009.

(Other Cummulative) send request for a complete list.
Media, Film-Making: 3
Media, Video Productions: 42

1. Medical Emergency Response to Haiti Earthquake, Mennonite Medical Assocation Regional meeting, Harrisonburg, VA. April 30, 2010
2. Virginia Mennonite Missions response to the Haiti Earthquake, Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community, Harrisonburg, VA. March 2010
3. How culture, commerce, and education affect the flow of the Gospel. Harrisonburg Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA. February 2010 and May 2010.
   
   

Other

1. Coordinated emergency medical relief response by Virginia Mennonite Missions to Haiti Earthquake. Arranged logistics and prepared volunteer teams to travel and serve in Haiti (total of 3 emergency medical teams and one trauma counseling team). January – May 2010.
2. Accompanied 12 EMU alumni with Prof. Linford Stutzman to Greece and Turkey to replicate part of Apostle Paul’s Missionary journeys. Videographer for 15 hours of video tape. June 2009.
3. Member, Board of Directors, Park View Federal Credit Union. Harrisonburg, VA 1996 – 2008.
4. Member, Family Life Center Feasibility Study Group, Lindale Mennonite Church, Linville, VA. 2007-08.
5. Member, Stewardship and Finance Committee. Lindale Mennonite Church. (Linville, VA). 2004-present.#Secretary, Board of Directors, Park View Federal Credit Union. Harrisonburg, VA. 2008.
6. Accompanied EMHS touring choir to Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. Posted daily webpages for parents and friends in the USA to follow activities. Spring 2008.
7. Member, Haiti Project Management Group. Provides direction for coordinating Mennonite Church mission projects in Haiti. 2006 – present.
8. Adjunct faculty at Bluffton University. Directed/taught a three-week cross cultural experience for ten Bluffton students. (Bluffton, OH and Trinidad and Tobago) May, 2005.
9. Member, School Board. Maranatha School for the Deaf. Top Hill, Jamaica. 2000-present.
10. Caribbean Regional Director, Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions. Administrator responsible for supervision of all persons serving as missionaries in the Caribbean. Harrisonburg, VA. 1998-present.
11. Director of Cemetery, Lindale Mennonite Church, Linville, VA. 1990-present.
12. Active Member of Lindale Mennonite Church. (Linville, VA). 1980-present.

Community:
Direct Kicks Soccer Camp 1986-present
Board Member: Crossroads to Brain Injury: 2016-2022, Board President 2020-2022.
Lead Coach at Messiah College Residential Soccer Camp, Mechanicsburg, PA: July, 2012-present
Emcee Waterman Family Fun Night: April 2017

Professional Service:
1986-present NSCAA Member

American Red Cross Instructor Certification:
Lifeguarding: 1996-2019
First Aid/CPR/AED: Current (CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer)

Abuse Prevention Systems
“Sexual Abuse Awareness Training” Certificate May 28, 2018

Biomechanics: Fall, 2021
Fitness Administration & Assessment: Spring, 2019
Exercise Physiology: Spring, 2017
Motor Learning: Spring, 2022
Skiing: Spring 2019 Snowboarding: Spring, 2019 Adapted Physical Education: Spring, 2022

Total: (1986-present) 36 Years 330-268-51 (.530)

Shakespeare Songs, Complete Songs by Matthew Harris © 2012, a CD recording, Voce; conductor

Light © 2011, a CD recording of Christmas music, Laudate Mennonite Ensemble; conductor

Love Songs © 2011, a CD recording with Winchester Musica Viva; conductor

Sing the Story, © 2007, Faith & Life Resources, Scottdale, Pa.; assistant to the editor, and producer/director of two CDs to accompany this volume

Sing the Journey, © 2005, Faith & Life Resources, Scottdale, Pa.; assistant to the editor, and producer/director of two CDs to accompany this volume

Singing: A Mennonite Voice, © 2001, Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa., co-authored with Marlene Kropf

Hymnal: Accompaniment Handbook, © 1993, Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, Pa., et al; editor/writer/compiler

Hymnal: A Worship Book, © 1992, Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, Pa., et al; music editor

24 April 2016, Spring Concert, EMU Chamber Singers, Lehman Auditorium, with numerous guest musicians including the EMU Gospel Choir and the EMU Gospel Choir Band

17-18 April 2016, Spring Ayres, Winchester Musica Viva, Winchester, Va. with guests James Wood High School Chamber Ensemble, and the premiere performance of Georgianne Toole’s Four Emily Dickinson Songs

6 February 2016, guest conductor with the Mennonite Heritage Festival singers at Lancaster Mennonite Music Festival, Neffsville Mennonite Church, Lancaster, Pa.

18, 19, 20 December 2015, Messiah, Winchester Musica Viva, Upperville, Harrisonburg, and Winchester, Va.; conductor

14 November 2015, EMU Music Department Gala Concert, conductor for shorter version of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, Lehman Auditorium

17-18 October 2015, Do You Hear the People Sing, concert with open invitation to audience to sing with us anything they wished to sing, Winchester Musica Viva, Winchester, Va.; conductor

1 May 2016, planned and led a service of singing with the Harrisonburg Unitarian-Universalist congregation, marking the death of Lauro Torentino Rojas, a Turner Ashby High School senior who was killed in an accident with a truck, and whose death happened in the church’s parking lot

10 April 2016, EMU Chamber Singers at Zion Mennonite Church, Broadway; led the worship service

20 March 2016, EMU Chamber Singers at St. Stephens United Church of Christ, Harrisonburg; participated in the worship service

19 March 2016, EMU Chamber Singers, Performing Arts Series concert, New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, Va.

10 February 2016, EMU Chamber Singers led University Ash Wednesday Chapel

7 February 2016, EMU Chamber Singers, Choral EvenSong at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Harrisonburg

31 January 2016, guest music leader and planner of the worship service, Hebron Mennonite Church, Hebron, Md.

8-10 January 2016, co-led 29th annual weekend for music and worship leaders, Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, Laurelville, Pa.

14 December 2015, EMU Christmas Chapel, Who is this stranger in our midst?, planned and co-led with EMU Chamber Singers and Theatre Department

6 December 2015, EMU Chamber Singers at Muhlenberg Lutheran Church, Harrisonburg, participated in the worship service

22 November 2015, planned and led a service of singing with the Harrisonburg Unitarian-Universalist congregation, Our Own St. Cecilia

11 October 2015, Worship service planning and leading, with EMU Chamber Singers, EMU Homecoming Weekend

19-20August 2015, planned and led worship services for Fall Faculty-Staff Conferences, EMU

Rhodes, Gloria (2023). Do We Walk It Like We Talk it? Guided reflection for people working for peace and justice (working title). Rowman & Littlefield (forthcoming).

Practicing What We Preach: Personal Formation as Peace Practice. In Just Peace, Vol II (2021).  Proceedings of the 2nd Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference. Netherlands, Wipf and Stock Publishers (Forthcoming).

[Book Review] The Jesus Factor in Justice and Peacemaking by C. Norman Kraus (2015). Mennonite Quarterly Review, 89.4. Goshen, IN.

Envisioning the Future: Interviews with Three STAR Practitioners. Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience Newsletter. Eastern Mennonite University, May, 2014.

Memorial Day Reflection, and Drawing Trees. In Landis, Susan Mark, Lisa Amstutz, Cindy Snider, Judith Kulp, eds. Seasoned with Peace: Spring. Peacemeal Press, 2011.

Avoiding Conflict. In Landis, Susan Mark, Lisa Amstutz, Cindy Snider, eds. Seasoned with Peace: Winter. Peacemeal Press, 2010.

Mennonites. The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Drawing Trees. PeaceSigns. Orrville, OH: Peace and Justice Support Network of MCUSA, June 16, 2009.

Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation Practice: Is There a Difference?. Unpublished Dissertation. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University, December 5, 2008. Full text is available through academia.edu or George Mason University libraries.

Exploring Peace and Conflict. In Garber, Julie, B. Welling Hall, Joseph Liechty, Timothy McElwee, eds. Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner Publishers. August 2008.

Smeltzer Erb, C., & Erb, P. (2018). Making Amends: A restorative justice approach to classroom behavior. The Teacher Educators Journal, 11, 91-104.

Smeltzer Erb, C. (2010). The power of “we” language in creating equitable learning environments. AILACTE Journal (The Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education), 7(1), 83-91.

Stauffer, C., Miller R., Kreider, J., Roth Sawatzky, R., & Bhagat, R. (2020). Sexual Harms: Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience. STAR Program: Eastern Mennonite University

Stauffer, C., (2020). Sexual Harm and Restorative Justice: The Case for Care-Fullness. Anabaptist World, Issue: December 2, 2020.

Stauffer, C. (2017). Infrapolitics of Defiance: Forms of Agency Exhibited by Homeless Survivors of Gender-based Violence. Social Sciences, MDPI: Open Access. doi:10.3390/socsci6030070

Stauffer, C. & Mullins, B. (2017). Dressing the Wound: Dynamics of Sexual Abuse and Recovery in Religious Enclaves in Underwood, L and Hutchingson, D. (Eds.) Status of Women and Girls: A Global Perspective. Lexington Books: Rowman & Littlefield.

Stauffer, C. (2017). Narrating the Gift: Scripting Cycles of Reciprocity in Gauteng in Mottiar, S. and Ngcoya, M. (Eds.) Philanthropy in South Africa: Horizontality, Ubuntu and Social Justice. Pretoria, South Africa: HSRC Press. ISBN: 9780796925671

Stauffer, C. (2015). The Sexual Politics of Gender-based Violence in South Africa: Linking Private and Public Worlds. Journal for the Sociological Integration of Religion and Society, 5(1), 1-16. ISSN: 2159-8711

Stauffer, C. (2007). Africa: Fast Forwarding into the Future. FutureTakes: Transcultural Futurist Magazine, 6 (1). ISSN: 1554-7744

Stauffer, C. (2007). Riding Waves of Change: Women in Church Leadership, VBI Publications, Working Papers: Southern Africa, August 2007.

Stauffer, C. and Stauffer, C. (Eds.). (2005-2010). Peace Pathways, Regional Peace Network, www.mcc.org/southafrica/peacepathways.

Stauffer, C. and Stauffer, C. (2002). Nurturing the Tree of Peace, MCC Peace Office Publications, 32(1), 1-4.

• "Accompanying Communities of Faith in the Aftermath of Harm" Co-facilitator with Carl Stauffer; Guidespring; Training Retreat, (September 18-20, 2025)
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• "Transformative Justice in Your Workplace: Practical Skills and Tools for Service Providers" Co-trainer with Melody Pannell and Matt Tibbles; Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect; Online Transformative Justice Summer Series, (July 26, 2024)
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• "The Power of Transformative Justice: Leveraging Community-based Approaches to Sexual Harm Prevention & Advocacy" Co-trainer with Melody Pannell and Matt Tibbles; Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect; Online Transformative Justice Summer Series, (July 12, 2024)
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• "Self & Community Care in the Aftermath of Trauma" Lead Facilitator
• Lutheran Community Care Services: Annual Conference (LCCS), Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore (November 17, 2023)
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• "Trauma & Resilience: Practices & Strategies for Institutes of Higher Learning" Subject Matter Expert
• National University of Singapore, NUS University Town Campus, Singapore (November 16; pm, 2023)
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• "Rupture & Repair: Restorative Approaches to Intimate Violence" Presenter
• Workshop for LCCS Practitioners & Faithbased Leaders, Singapore (November 16; am, 2023) 
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• "Ground Zero: Targeting Gaps & Growth in Sexual Harms Prevention & Advocacy" Workshop Facilitator
• National Let Our Voice Run Campaign, LCCS, Singapore (November 14-15, 2023)
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• "Sexual Harm Awareness Training: Policies, Practices & Procedures" Seminar Facilitator                                                        
• In-service Training for Clergy & Lay Leaders: Divine Unity Community Church, Harrisonburg, VA (September 26, 2023)
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• "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Sexual Harm: Where To From Here?"  Seminar Co-Facilitator with Matt Tibbles and Talibah Aquil  
• First Step Training: A Response to Domestic Violence (September 12, 2023)
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• "Amplifying Voices of Healing Justice" Keynote Address                                                                                                                                                                               
• Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance: Annual Conference, Harrisonburg, VA (June 22, 2023)  
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• "STAR Training: Institutional Responses to Sexual Misconduct" Co-trainer (with Matt Tibbles)
• MCUSA & Canada Executive Leadership, San Francisco, USA (Dec 1, 2022)
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• "Restorative Justice Summit 2022" (Conference Co-facilitation with Mikayla W-C McCray and Rachel Roth Sawatzky)
• Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (June 22-23, 2022)
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• "Centering Survivor Assets: Counter Stories of Critical Hope"
• 4th Conference on Peacebuilding from a Gender Perspective, Panel 7, Ibero University, Mexico (November 6, 2020)            
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• "Disrupting Ripple Effects: Understanding Primary & Secondary Trauma" (with Sue Park-Hur & Mary Thiessen Nation)
• Trauma Seminar at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, VA, USA (May 13, 2020)
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• "Risk, Resistance, and Resilience: Logics of Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Sexual Harm Survivors"
• Towards Healing: Catholic Church Response to Institutional, Clerical and Religious Abuse, Dublin, Ireland (April 10, 2019)
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• “Sexual Abuse and Truth-Telling: Institutions Under the Spotlight" 
  International Conflict Resolution Institute (Incore), Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland (April 17, 2019)
  
  
• "Mirror on a Movement: Restorative Justice and Sexual Violence" Co-presenter 
  Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland (April 11, 2019)                   
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• "#MeToo: What Could Institutional Accountability Look Like?" 
  School of Government - Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (March 22, 2019)
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• “Intersectional Justice: How Identity Shapes Sexual Violence" 
  School of Government - Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (March 21, 2019)
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• "Body Toxic: Tools and Strategies for Addressing Acute or Protracted Sexual Trauma”
  Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance – Annual Conference, Richmond, VA. (May 1 – 4, 2018)
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• “Structural Holes and Resilience Strategies: A Comparison of Three Domestic Violence Survivor Demographics”
  Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology – Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH (Oct 5 – 7, 2017)
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• “Body Politics of Abuse in Amish and Conservative Mennonite Households”
  Crossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders & Boundaries – Conference, Harrisonburg, VA. (June 22 – 25, 2017)
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• “Mechanisms of Underground Resistance: Patterns of Dissociative Behavior Among Homeless Domestic Violence Survivors”
  International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation – Annual Conference, Washington DC (March 30 – April 3, 2017)
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• “Locked In, Locked Up, or Locked Out: Social Capital Networks as Forms of Resilience Among Battered Undocumented Latinas”
  Peace and Justice Studies Association – Annual Conference, James Madison University, VA (Oct 15-17, 2015)
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• “Visible and Invisible Dissent: The Subversive Actions of Homeless Women Who Are Survivors of Gender-based Violence”
  Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology – Annual Conference, Montgomery, AL (Oct 8-10, 2015)
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• “Rebuilding in the Aftermath of Environmental Disasters: Community Resilience Strategies (co-presenter)
  Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan (June 20, 2015)
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• “Understanding Complex Trauma: Biopsychosocial Interactions” (co-presenter)
  Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (June 16, 2015)
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• “Bodies as Battlefields: Reimaging Women’s Roles in Conflict Zones”
  Virginia Social Science Association, Norfolk State University, VA. (March 28, 2015)
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• “Healthy Sexuality”, (co-presenter)
  Small College Counseling Association, EMU, Harrisonburg, VA. (March 20, 2015)
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• “Faith and Trauma: Anabaptist Perspectives”
  American Islamic College, Chicago, IL. (March 15, 2015)
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• “A Subversive Shalom: Enacting Radical Peace” (co-presenter)
  Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship Conference, EMU Harrisonburg, VA. (Feb 1, 2014)
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• “Gender Mainstreaming in War and Peace: Panacea, Band-Aid, or First Step?”
  Virginia Commonwealth University: Women, War & Peace Conference, Richmond, VA. (Sept. 20-21, 2013)
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• “Christ in the Public Square: Transformational Development?
  Calvin College: Faith and International Development Conference, Grand Rapids, MI. (Feb 1-3, 2013)
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• “The Interplay Between Development and Gender Empowerment Issues: Where to From Here?”
  Calvin College: Faith and International Development Conference, Grand Rapids, MI. (Feb 2010)
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• “Patterns of Social Reciprocity in the New South Africa”
  University of the Witwatersrand: Post Graduate University Colloquium, Johannesburg, South Africa, (Sept. 4-5, 2009)
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• “Betwixt and Between: Gauteng’s Black Professionals at the Nexus of Contradictory Class Locations?”
  University of Johannesburg: Comprehending Class Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa (June 22-25, 2009)
  
  

Training & Workshop Presentations:

• "Restorative Justice and Family Violence"    
  One in Four - Sexual Abuse Therapy, Advocacy, and Prevention Organization, Dublin, Ireland (April 11, 2019)             
  
  
• "Disrupting Ripple Effects: Equipping Providers with Trauma-Informed Practices" 
  Restorative Justice and Victim Services Office - Irish Probation Services, Dublin Ireland (April 10, 2019)    
  
  
• "Working While Burning? Activating Self-Care Practices in High Burnout Environments” 
  Training for Virginia Commonwealth Attorney’s Office, First Step and Healthy Families Network, VA. (June 6, 2018) 
  
  
• “Post-Traumatic Growth: Service Provider Resilience Training”
  6-Week Training Contract grant with First Step, VA. (July 14 – Sept 22, 2017)
  
  
• “What Does Trauma-Informed Care & Support for Students Look Like?” 
  EMU Residence and Student Life Divisions, EMU (Aug 4 & 14, 2017)
  
  
• “Sexual Assault Response Team Best Practices: Culturally Competent Care” 
  Collins Center – S.A.R.T Task Force, Harrisonburg, VA (May 1, 2017)
  
  
• “Institutional Harm and Healing: Responding to Sexual Violence”
  Facilitation of symposium featuring Father Thomas Doyle & expert panelists, EMU All Faculty/Staff Training (November 7, 2016)
  
  
• “Conversations on Sexual Violence: Cultivating Community Resilience” 
  Coordination of a Regional Symposium with local and national speakers and 10 concurrent workshop sessions, EMU (March 19, 2016)
  
  
• "Adverse Childhood Experiences Symposium” 
  Hosted a Transdisciplinary Seminar Weekend on post-traumatic growth, EMU (April 10-12, 2015)

Public Addresses:

• "#LiveCritical Hope" Commencement Address                                                                                                                                                                                                      Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg VA, USA; [Minute 18:40 and onwards] (May 8, 2021)
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• "Futuring the Victim’s Rights Movement: What’s Around the Corner?”                              
• Keynote Address, National Crime Victim’s Rights Week, Victims of Crime (OVC) Grant – First Step, VA (April 12, 2018)
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• “#GivingIsReceiving”
  International Students Organization – Chapel Address, EMU (Sept 29, 2017)
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• “Silent Violence Project: Surfacing Harrisonburg’s Hidden Survivor Communities”
  Domestic Violence Task Force, Harrisonburg Police Dept. (Sept 27, 2017)
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• “Through the Prism of Gender: A Feminist Analysis of War Zones & Peace Fields”
  Summer Peacebuilding Institute Luncheon, EMU (June 1, 2017)
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• “Sex and Millennials: #NewScripts”
  Speaker for launch of EMU Chapel Sexuality Series, (October 5, 2016)
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• “Christ and the Politics of Fear: Moving Beyond Anxiety”
  Presbyterian Church USA - Forum Leaders Conference, Massanetta Springs, VA (October 5, 2016)
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• “Give Yourself Away: Generation X at the Cross-roads”
  Mennonite World Conference: Global Youth Summit, Keynote Address, PA. (July 19, 2015)
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• “Peace Building in Intimate Domains: Domestic Violence Unveiled”
  Pacific Center for Peacebuilding, Suva, Fiji, (June 5, 2014)
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• “Truth-telling in Intimate Domains: Domestic Violence Unzipped”
  CJP Summer Peacebuilding Institute – Frontier Luncheon, EMU, VA. (May 20, 2014)
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• “The Secret Life of Accidental Heroes”
  Eastern Mennonite University: Baccalaureate Address, VA. (April 26, 2014)
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• “Faith: Vision Impossible?”
  EMU Chapel Speaker, Harrisonburg VA. (August 31, 2012)
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• “Sex, Power, and Lost Wonder: Re-Imaging the Possibilities”
  Speaker, Take Back the Night: EMU Chapel Service, Harrisonburg VA. (October 2, 2011)
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• “The Origins and Impacts of Porn Addiction”
  Session for EMU Student Women’s Association (EMSWA), Northlawn 4th floor, 7:00-9:00 p.m., (March 23, 2011)
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• “Doing Peace: Here and Now”
  Chapel Service, Eastern Mennonite High School, 9:50-10:10 (March 11, 2011)
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• “The Middle East and Libya”
  WHSV Interview: TV3, 7:00 p.m. News, Harrisonburg, VA. (February 23, 2011)
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• “Politics and Protest: What’s Going on in the Middle East”
  Panelist, campus-wide discussion sponsored by SMRI and EMU’s Peace Fellowship, EMU Common Grounds (February 23, 2011)
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• “Land, Labor and Livelihoods: Peoples’ Movements in South Africa”
  Session for ‘Power to the People’ - Kennesaw State University Exhibit, EMU Common Grounds (November 15, 2010)
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• “South Africa’s Dialogue on Race and Diversity”
  EMU DORD Chapel, 10:00-10:30 a.m. (November 10, 2010)
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• “The Gulf Oil Spill: Accountability, Action, and Faith”
  Interdisciplinary Panel on Sustainability, EMU Common Grounds, 10:40-11:30 (September 29, 2010)
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• “Paradigms of Collective Life: Reflections on the Mennonite and Anabaptist Experience”
  ACRS Seminar, EMU Brunk House Conference Rm, 4:00-5:30 p.m. (March 23, 2010)
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• “Teen Sexuality Unzipped”
  South African Department of Education: Keynote Address, National Conference: Life & Love at Schools, Bedfordview, South Africa (September 24, 2009)
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• “Teen Addiction and Recovery: Mastering the Gauntlet”
  Ignite Youth, Johannesburg, South Africa (May 2009)
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• “Campus Sexuality: Views, Values, and Volition”
  WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa (March 2009)

Other courses taught:

• Conflict, Violence and Terrorism, DASS (Spring 2011); Introduction to Sociology, DASS, (Spring 2011); Environment and Society, DASS, (Fall 2010); Social Stratification, DASS, (Fall 2010); Theories for Social Change, DASS, (Fall 2010); Cultural Perspectives, ADCP, (Summer 2010); Food and Population, BIOL, (Spring 2010)*

Involved at Grace Covenant Church on the minstry/prayer team for healing and intercession and as a small group leader. 

Camp nurse:
Highland Retreat
Brethren Woods
Teen Mania Ministries
Renew Camp (and organized nursing part of the camp)

Presented stroke teaching at Bridgewater Church of Brethren for women’s circle, April 2014
Stroke presentation at RMH for Janet Marshman to a group of older persons July 2017

Stroke presentation for Camp SRMH June 2015, June 2016, June 2017
Stroke presentation, teaching, BP checks for Aging Gracefully conference at Church of the Nazarene, May 2015, May 2016

Teaching CPR for EMU, SRMH, and SRMH Wellness Center: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Taught CPR for Mary Baldwin College May and July 2017, June 2019, May 2021

Teaching CPR for nursing (yearly: 2 classes in Jan.; 2 in June; + 3 in August or Sept.) and education (yearly: class in Oct + sometimes one in March)  students at EMU

Comunity outreach:

Betel (chruch related drug and alcohol rehab community) Birmingham, England June 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019

Gift and Thrift as a volunteer: weekly April- May 2021

30 hours license renewal package (completed and mailed in) Jan. 2021

Leaman, James M and C Hendricks (2023), "Geothermal Heat Pumps: Reputation vs. Reality", The Green Building Advisor, August 2023.

Leaman, James M and C Hendricks (2023), "Integrating an ERV or HRV into a Forced Air System: this economical approach to healthy indoor air quality has its challenges", The Green Building Advisor, May 2023.

Leaman, James M and C Hendricks (2022), "Misleading R-Value and the Need to Reframe Insulation Scales", The Journal of Light Construction (JLCONLINE), May 2022.

Leaman, James M. (2012), “Toward Restorative Leadership”, Papers and Proceedings of the inaugural Annual Conference on Sustainability in Business, Issued December, 2012.

Leaman, James M. (2012), “Student Discovery and Active Learning in Economics: Autonomy, Position Papers and Student Debate Yield Engaged, Transformative Learning”, Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty Third Annual Teaching Economics Conference, May issue 2012.

Leaman, James M. (2011), “Why are Gas Prices so Low?”, The Mennonite, May Issue 2011, 05/01/11.

Leaman, James M. (2010), “Management: Current Practices and New Directions”, Book Review in Christian Business Academy Review (CBAR), Spring Issue 2010, vol. V, no. 1.

Smeltzer, D., & Byer, O. (2014). A 3-D Analog of Steiner’s Porism. Mathematics Magazine, _87_(2), 95-99.

Byer, O., Lazebnik, F., & Smeltzer, D. (2010). Methods for Euclidean Geometry. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.

Smeltzer, D., & Byer, O. (2007). Exploring Loci in Geometry. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference of the ACMS, 114-140.

Byer, O., & Smeltzer, D. (2007). Edge bounds in non-hamiltonian k-connected graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 307, 1572-1579.

Smeltzer, D., & Byer, O. (2007). A Guide to Mathematics Competency, internally published for use in EMU Foundations of Math course.

Davis, J., & Smeltzer, D. (2003). Exponential Numbers of Inequivalent Difference Sets in Z^2{2s+1}. Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 11, 249-259.

Smeltzer, D. (1999). Properties of Codes from Difference Sets in 2-Groups. Designs, Codes, and Cryptography, 16, 291-306.

• Smeltzer, D. (2014, August). A Proof of Ptolemy’s Theorem. Presentation at the Mathematical Association of America Math Fest, Portland, OR.

• Smeltzer, D., & Good, J. (2012, November). Building a Successful Required Cross-cultural Program. Presentation at the NAFSA Region VIII Conference, Alexandria, VA.

• Smeltzer, D., & Byer, O. (2012, January). Using Methods for Euclidean Geometry in the Classroom. Presentation at the MAA-AMS joint national meeting, Boston, MA.

• Smeltzer, D. (2011, October). Codes, Ciphers, and Hat Games. Professional development workshop for the Rockingham County Public Schools, Harrisonburg, VA.

• Smeltzer, D. (2011, October). Spherical Inversions and their Applications to Geometry. Invited colloquium talk, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

• Byer, O., & Smeltzer. D. (2010, November). Applications of Circular and Spherical Inversions. Presentation at the MD-DC-VA sectional meeting of the MAA, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

• Smeltzer, D. (2010, October). Red Hat, Blue Hat: An Introduction to Coding Theory. Invited colloquium talk, Longwood University, Farmville, VA.

• Smeltzer, D. (2010, February). Red Hat, Blue Hat: An Introduction to Coding Theory. Invited colloquium talk, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland.

• Byer, O., & Smeltzer, D. (2008, January). Exploring Loci in Geometry. Presentation at the MAA-AMS joint national meeting, San Diego, CA.

• Byer, O., & Smeltzer, D. (2007, June). Exploring Loci in Geometry. Presentation at the biannual meeting of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, PA.

• Byer, O., & Smeltzer, D. (2007, April). Exploring Loci in Geometry. Presentation at the MD-DC-VA sectional meeting of the MAA, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA.

• Loewen, J., & Smeltzer, D. (2006, June). Counting the Years. Talk at the North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan province, China.

• Smeltzer, D. (2005, April). Red Hat, Blue Hat: An Introduction to Coding Theory. Invited colloquium presentation, Randolph-Macon University, Ashland, VA.

• Smeltzer, D. (2002, January). Historical Data in the Mathematics Classroom. Presentation at the MAA-AMS joint national meeting, San Diego, CA.

• Smeltzer, D. (2001, November). The Hat Problem. Invited colloquium presentation, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

• Smeltzer, D. (1999, October). Codes from Difference Sets in 2-Groups. Invited colloquium presentation, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.

• Smeltzer, D. (1998, April). Error-Correcting Codes and Their Applications. Invited colloquium presentation, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN.

• Smeltzer, D. (1996, January). Properties of Codes from Difference Sets in 2-Groups. Presentation at the MAA-AMS joint national meeting, Orlando, FL.

• Smeltzer, D. (1995, June). An Introduction to Error-Correcting Codes. Invited presentation for the Carleton/St. Olaf Summer Program, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.

• Smeltzer, D. (1995, March). Codes from Difference Sets in 2-Groups. Invited presentation at the University of Minnesota Combinatorics Seminar, St. Paul, MN.

• Member, Harrisonburg City Council Environmental Performance Standards Advisory Committee, January 2017 – present.
• Quality Enhancement Plan lead evaluator for the on-site review of a SACS institution, April 2016.
• Parent-Teacher Fellowship Secretary, Eastern Mennonite School, July 2011-July 2013.
• Co-facilitator of professional development session for Harrisonburg City middle school math teachers, with Dr. Edwin O’Shea and Dr. Elizabeth Arnold, October 13, 2011.
• Friendly City Food Cooperative Board Minutes-taker, December 2009 – September 2011.
• College for a Day presentation, “Red Hat, Blue Hat: What Color is Your Hat?” given jointly with Laura Hershey to J. Frank Hillyard Middle School students, June 3, 2011.
• Workshop presentation, Expanding Your Horizons conference for girls in grades 6-10, James Madison University, April 25, 2009.
• Active member, worship leader, leader of adult Sunday School class, and facilitator of the college-age Sunday School class at Park View Mennonite Church, 2006 – present.

• Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions Consultation, Goshen, IN, March 24-26, 2017.
• EAB Student Success Collaborative Summit, Washington, DC, November 1-2, 2016.
• CIC Information Fluency in the Disciplines Workshop, Louisville, KY, March 10-12, 2016.
• Association of American Colleges and Universities annual meeting, Washington, DC, January 20-23, 2016.
• Council of Independent Colleges Institute for Chief Academic Officers, Baltimore, MD, November 7-9, 2015.
• Values Based Leadership, Laurelville Christian Retreat Center, Mt. Pleasant, PA, October 27-29, 2015, and February 23-25, 2016.
• Council of Independent Colleges Symposium on the Liberal Arts, Washington, DC, September 17, 2015
• MAA MathFest, Washington, DC, August 5-8, 2015.
• Virginia Network conference, Richmond, VA, May 29, 2015.
• Council of Independent Colleges NetVUE Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 26-28, 2015.
• EAB Student Success Collaborative Summit, Washington, DC, January 22-23, 2015.
• MAA MathFest, Portland, OR, August 7-9, 2014.
• CCCU Forum: Engaged Community, Los Angeles, CA, February 12-14, 2014.
• National Joint Meetings of the MAA and the AMS, Washington, DC, January 16-18, 2014.

Sailing Acts: Following an Ancient Voyage 2006

Anabaptists Meeting Muslims (Co-edited) 2005.

Practicing Truth: Confident Witness in Our Pluralistic World (Co-edited) 1999.

With Jesus in the World 1992.

• Presented “Paul the Explorer of Empire and Kingdom” at the Ephesus Meeting, Kusadasi, Turkey, May 30, 2011

“Biblical Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” for the opening session of the Perspectives course offered by Virginian Mennonite Missions held at Grace Covenant Church, Harrisonburg, VA, January – April, 2014

“Paul the Traveler and the People of the Mediterranean Sea” presented to Zion Mennonite Church Sunday school class, December, 2013

“Paul and the Maritime Mob” sabbatical presentation for EMU faculty, November, 2013

“Cross-Cultural Discipleship” presentations for Mennonite Mission Network new worker orientation, Elkhart, IN, July, 2012, 2013

“The Christian Movement: Mission in Acts,” presentations at tranSend orientation, Virginia Mennonite Missions, July, 2012, 2013

Presented “The Living God is a Missionary God” and “Unleashing the Gospel: Mission in the Early Church” at the Perspectives course at EMS offered by Virginia Mennonite Missions, Sept-Dec. 2012

“Mission of the New Testament Church,” presentations at World Mission Institute, Harrisburg, PA June, 2012.

“The Journeys of Paul” presentation in Park View Mennonite Church Sunday school class, July, 2012.

“Paul’s Journey to Rome,” presentation at the St. Paul Union Church in Antalya, Turkey, September, 2012.

The following presentations on “Ports of Paul” are the result of a fall sabbatical research project in Turkey, August – November, 2012.

“The Ports of Paul,” presentation in Eastern Mennonite Seminary class on Acts, November, 2012

“Acts” Sunday School and Sermon at Zion Mennonite Church, Dec. 2012

“Ports of Paul” Sunday School and Sermon at Immanuel Mennonite Church, Dec. 2012

“Ports of Paul” Sunday School and Sermon at Mountain View Mennonite Church, Dec. 2012

“Called: Direction, Preparation and Timing,” CALLED retreat, Eastern Mennonite Missions, Akron, PA, Nov. 2011.

“Voyaging in Faith” and “When a Doctor Travels with Paul,” presentations for the annual convention of the Mennonite Medical Association, Williamsburg, VA June, 2010.

Let learning seminary for adults in Greek islands and Rome, June, 2015

Led two learning seminars for adults in Turkey and Greece, June, 2012

Consultant for Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions

Consultant for Nazareth Village educational program development

American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2013

American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2012

American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2011

• Led the semester-long Middle East undergraduate cross-cultural study program that included a new segment in Turkey and a revised course “The Christian Movement in the Mediterranean.”

• Led a semester-long Middle East undergraduate cross-cultural study program that included a new Arabic-language course in Damascus, Syria in the spring semester, 2011.

• In cooperation with Jerusalem University College, taught a new version of the Eastern Mennonite Seminary /BLESS course “The Christian Movement in the Mediterranean” aboard a sailboat in the Aegean in May, 2011, 2012

Coordinator of EMU visit of Dr. Moshe Shner, Oranim

Cross-Cultural Senior Seminar leader (with Jerry Holsopple) Turkey 2013Middle East

Cross-Cultural Study Semester leader: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Summer Cross Cultural leader: Albania 1998, Lithuania 2002, Turkey 2005, 2007, 2012

Cross Cultural Committee
Alumni Board Faculty Representative

• Adult Life Group Co-Leader (HFCN)

 Professional

• Nominations Committee, Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing. 2023-2025.
• Magnet Abstract Reviewer, 2023 ANCC National Magnet Conference and the ANCC Pathway to Excellence Conference
• Awards Committee Chair, Pi Mu, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Term 2021-present.
• Peer Reviewer, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, January 2017.
• Secretary, Virginia Association of Colleges of Nursing. Term 2016-2018.
• President, Pi Mu Chapter-at-Large, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Term 2016-2018.
• President-elect, Pi Mu Chapter-at-Large, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Term 2015-2016.
• Vice-President, Pi Mu Chapter-at-Large, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Term 2013-2015, 2010-2013.

Community

• REVIVE! Trainer, Medical Reserve Corps, Virginia Department of Health. 2023-present.
• RN Volunteer COVID-19 Point of Distrubution Clinics. Medical Reserve Corp, Virginia Department of Health. 2021-present.
• Medical Affairs Committee, Sentara Rockingham Memorial Hospital. August 2019-present.
• Board Chair, Bridge of Hope Harrisonburg-Rockingham. Term April 2015-March 2017.
• Board Member, Bridge of Hope Harrisonburg-Rockingham. Term May 2014-April 2016 & May 2016-April 2018.

"Anabaptist Environmental Ethics: A Review Essay," Mennonite Quarterly Review 94/1 (January 2020).

"The Melodrama of the Unknown Man," in Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding, Garry L. Hagberg, ed. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

"Hope and History: Three Views," The Cresset, Vol LXXXII (2018)

“Six Scenes of Instruction in Stanley Cavell’s Little Did I Know,” Philosophy and Literature 40/2 (2016).

“The Politics of Friendship in the Gospel of John,” in Reading Scripture as a Political Act, eds. Matthew A. Tapie and Daniel Wade McClain (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2015).

“Theology is a Kind of Reading,” Conrad Grebel Review 31/2 (Spring 2013).

Cavell, Companionship and Christian Theology (New York: Oxford University Press), 2011.

“Wittgenstein Among the Theologians,” in Unsettling Arguments, ed., Kelly Johnson, Charles Pinches and Charles Collier (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010).

“For and Against Hauerwas Against the Mennonites,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 84/3 (July 2010).

"Fugitive Ecclesia," in The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation, Chris K. Huebner and Tripp York, eds., (Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2010)

Easter in Baghdad, Commonweal, March 28, 2008

The War in Iraq: How Catholic Conservatives Got It Wrong, Commonweal, December 3, 2004.

“The Poetics of Identity in Julia Spicher Kasdorf’s Early Poetry,” Keynote Address at “Wading Deeper: Anabaptist-Mennonite Identities Engage Postmodernity,” Canadian Mennonite University, May 31, 2014.

“Friends and Enemies in the Gospel of John,” Paper delivered at the American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic regional meeting, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Newburgh, NY, March 8, 2014.

“The Limits of Theology: A Response to Jonathan Tran,” Paper delivered at “The Difference Christ Makes: Celebrating the Life, Work and Friendship of Stanley Hauerwas,” Duke Divinity School, Durham NC, Nov. 1, 2013.

“Leading from the Middle,” CIC Workshop for Department and Division Chairs, May 10-12, 2016, Portland, ME.

American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2016.

“The Difference Christ Makes: Celebrating the Life, Work and Friendship of Stanley Hauerwas,” Duke Divinity School, Durham NC, Nov. 1, 2013.

Pathways to Whole video documentary and photo book, by EMU’s 2010 Documentary class, feature artist Cyndi Gusler.

Rocks and Minerals Magazine, Featured Artist, Cyndi Gusler. Nov-Dec. 2008.

The Studio no.15 June 2001

Solo and Collaborative Work of Cyndi Gusler, Pen Women of the Valley, Bridgewater, VA (Mar. 2009)

Hybrid, Slide lecture presented in conjunction with artist’s reception and opening of the show Hybrid at Bridgewater College’s Miller Gallery.

Practicing Resurrection with Cast-offs and Left-overs. Mennonite Arts Weekend, Cincinnati, OH (Feb. 2008)

Nasaruni Values: Exterior Wall of Nasaruni Maasai Girls’ Academy, Narok, Kenya (Spring 2018)

Mockingbird Mosaic Mural on Main Street, Massanutten Regional Library in Harrisonburg, VA. This mural was commissioned by the MRL in coordination with the Big Read Project. The mural was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2007. The mural is a permanent installation and was created with the help of many volunteers.

River of Life Mural: a collaboration with muralist, Dimitri Kadiev. Kadiev is a student of Judy Baca, founder of the L.A. Mural Project, the longest continuous mural in the United States, and SPARC, Social and Public Art Resource: http://sparcinla.org/. Fall 2015.

Solo/ Collaborative Exhibitions:

• Looking for Rocktown: Smith House Gallery, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA (Sept. 2017)
• ‘Cause This Life is a Crazy Dance: Invitational, Hess Financial Art Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA (Apr. 2017)
• Parings: Collaborative paintings and drawings Ashley Sauder Miller. McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA (Oct. 2016)
• Artists’ Residency and Show: Collaborative and solo paintings and collages with Ashley Sauder Miller. Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA (Nov.-Dec. 2016)
• Retrospective: Spitzer Art Center, Harrisonburg, VA (Mar. 2016)

• Picking Up Marks: Collaborative and solo paintings with Katherine Burling and Ashley Sauder Miller. EMU, Harrisonburg, VA (Oct. 2015)

• Untitled (relationship): McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA (Feb. 2014)
• The Shop Show. Paintings by Cyndi Gusler. McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA (Feb. 2014)
• Haute Trash Runway Show. Producer, Designer and Model, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ (July 2013)

• Disintegrate, Solo Exhibition, Eastern Mennonite University’s Margaret M. Gehman Gallery (Feb. 2012)

• Ephemeral Art, installations for the Wild Goose Festival, NC (June 2012 and 2013)

• Trash Fashion Runway Show. Producer, Designer and Model, Pittsburgh Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA (July 2011)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40oh_qVE2ZU

• Hybrid. Paintings and Drawings by Cyndi and Lily Gusler. The Smith House, Harrisonburg, VA, sponsored by Arts Council of the Valley (May 2010)
  http://valleyarts.org/index.php/site/gallery

• Pirate. Paintings by Cyndi and Lily Gusler. McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA (April. 2010)

• Hybrid. Collaborative drawings by Cyndi and Lily Gusler. Harrisonburg League of Therapists, Harrisonburg, VA. Part of their “Creative Families” series (May 2009)

• Hybrid. Collaboration with Lily Gusler. Miller Gallery, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA (Sept.-Oct. 2008)

• Conglomerate. Main Gallery, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA. (July-Aug. 2007)

• Conglomerate. Weinman Mineral Museum/Tellus: Northwest Georgia Science Museum, Cartersville, GA. (Feb-May 2007)

Group Exhibitions:

• 7th Annual VMRC National Juried Art Exhibition, Park Gables Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA. (June 2012)

• 6x6x30, Juried Invitational, Spitzer Art Center, Harrisonburg, VA (Mar. 2016)Spring Art Invitational, Sunset Art Studio, Harrisonburg, VA (Mar. 2016)

• Listening, Margaret Gheman Gallery, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA (Mar. 2015)

• Family: Collaborative work with Lily Gusler, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA (Apr. 2015)

• The Return: EMU Alumni Show, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA (Oct. 2013)

• 8th Annual VMRC Juried Art Exhibition, Park Gables Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA (June 2012)

• Renaming Infinity, Guest artist for Chapter I Creative Installation Series, with Frances Miller, Hartzler Gallery, EMU, Harrisonburg, VA (Spring 2012)

• 10×10×10, Juried Exhibition, Second Street Contemporary Art Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (Oct. 2010)
• Riverviews Juried Art Exhibition. Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA (Nov./Dec. 2010)
• EMU Faculty Art Exhibition. Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA (Oct. 2010)

• EMU Faculty Art Exhibition. Invitational, Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA (Sept. 2010)

• Art for Climate’s Sake. Invitational, Clementine, Harrisonburg, VA (Jan. 2011)

• Annual Art Auction. Invitational, Second Street Gallery. Charlottesville, VA (Mar. 2011).

• 5th Annual VMRC National Juried Art Exhibition, Park Gables Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA. Awarded Best in Show (June 2009)

• VMRC Juried Art Exhibition: Juror and Awards Judge for this national show. (Apr. 2019)
• Teacher, Summer Art Institute for Children and Youth, Harrisonburg Public Schools.

• Artist in Residence, Shalom Mennonite Congregation (2008-2018)

• Fine Arts Academy, Advisory Board, Harrisonburg City Schools (2012-2017)

• City Youth Arts Month, Visual Art Awards: #1 Court Square, Larkin Arts, Court Square Theater, and Clementine; Harrisonburg, VA, Judged middle and high school art work (May 2013)

•  6” x 6” Invitational: Larkin Arts, Harrisonburg, VA, Juror and Awards Judge (April 2013)

• Central Shenandoah Arts Annual Members’ Show: Houff Community Center, Bridgewater, VA (May 2012)

• Shenandoah Valley Arts Center Annual Members’ Show: SVAC, Waynesboro, VA (June 2011)

• School of Art and Art History Undergraduate Juried Exhibition: Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (Apr. 2011)

• Director and/or Teacher for Summer Art Institute for Children and Youth, James Madison University School of Art and Art History, Harrisonburg, VA ( 2000-2018)

Faculty Scholarship/Research Grant: from EMU for $500.00 and six semester hours of teaching release time to develop the proposed body of artwork, The Artists’ Workshop, a Collaborative Painting Practice with Ashley Sauder Miller, and complete an artist’s lecture and gallery show (Fall 2016)

EMU Sabbatical: Ecological Art and Sustainability: Midwest Permaculture Institute, Grass Valley, CA (Fall 2010)

Best in Show,$1000.oo prize, 5th Annual VMRC National Juried Art Exhibition, Park Gables Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA. (June 2009)

$1500.00 Artist Grant, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA for the Flexible Geography Project, a collaborative project with artists with Greg Stewart and Scott Keen. Flexible Geography includes a mobile, community garden/sculpture in reconfigurable parts; seedbomber attire and accessories, website and interactive blogsite, and educational/outreach activities. (2009)

Faculty Scholarship Grant for …and this is not everything, a digital installation documenting (almost) everything I own. 
Six SH’s of release time and $500.00. Eastern Mennonite University. (2008-2009)

• Advisory Board, Harrisonburg Fine Arts Academy.

• Christians in the Visual Arts

• Women Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD)

• Greenmuseum.org

• Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA.

• Ephemeral Art as Spiritual Practice, Drawing with Coffee Grounds: Workshop for Staff and Volunteers at Kerus Global Orphan Care Center, Sochenguvey, South Africa (Feb. 2018)

• Master Classes in Watercolor painting:
  - Kerus Global Orphan Care Center, Johannesburg, South Africa (Feb. 2018)

   -Music for Life Schools, Kampala and Entebbe Uganda (Mar. 2018)§ School #1, Beslan, Russia (Apr. 2018)

• The Thing She Rode (illustrations): in collaboration with writer Chad Gusler. Mennonite Writers’ Conference, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, CA (Feb. 2015)

• Wild Goose Festival, at the intersection of faith, justice and art, Ephemeral drawings created on site for the event in collaboration with Ted Lyddon Hatten, Shakori Hills, NC  (2012) and Hot Springs, NC (2013)
• The Artist as Interventionist, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ (July 2013)

• Disintegration: Colloquium Presentation/Slide Lecture, Eastern Mennonite University’s Mainstage Theater, Harrisonburg, VA (Jan. 2012)

• Art for Social Change: Anabaptist Communicators Conference, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA (Oct. 2011)

Conferences/Workshop Participant:

Capture the Glow: Painting and Yoga Artists retreat, San Pancho, Mexico. (2019)

Painting Workshop with Anton Gericke: Cape Town, South Africa (Feb. 2018)

Stained Glass: Moscow, Russia (2017)

Innovation In Pedagogy Summit: University of Virginia (May 2015)

Painting with Tim Lowly, Professor of Painting at North Park University in Chicago: The Glen Workshop, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM (July 2011)

Permaculture Design Certification: Midwest Permaculture Institute, Bill Wilson and Wayne Weiseman, Grass Valley, CA (Nov. 2010)

The Glen Workshop: The Artist and the City. Workshop and seminar with Tim Rollins of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival, NYC). St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. (July 2008)

Interrupt! Intervene!: Rethinking Art as Social Practice, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA. May 15-17, 2008. Interruptions fostered exchange between scholars, innovative regional and international artists and curators, through panel presentations, performances and indoor and outdoor exhibitions. There was a Wikipedia dedicated to real-time collaboration and exchange between participants. The conference will generate a publication documenting the scholarly and artistic work emerging from this event.

EMU Guest lecturer: * Arts and Peacebuilding, CJP graduate course (2010-present) * Passion and Obsession Colloquium (2008, 2009) * First Year Seminar (Fall 2008)

EMU Mentoring and Advising: * Honors Student Mentor (2005-2009) * Advisor, VaCA students (2003-present) and Undeclared students (2007-2008) * New Faculty Mentor (2006-2007)

CICV

Educause

2018 - Director of User & Information Services

2011 - Associate Director of User Services

2002 - User Services Manager

2000 - Helpdesk Manager

1996 - Admissions Office Manager

1994 - Admissions Inquiry Manager

"Wink," a short story published in Southwest Review, April 2022

"Skin of Electric Fish," a short story republished by Punt Volat, January 2022

"Man of Sorrows," a short story published in Broad River Review, forthcoming late fall 2022 (2022 Ron Rash Award finalist)

"flyBaby," a short story published by The Maine Review, October, 2021 (2020 Calvino Award Finalist)

"St. Flannery Gets Her Wig," a short story published in Whale Road Review, Spring 2016

“We the Village,” a short story published in The Other Journal, March 2012

“The Nighthawk,” a short story published in Center for Mennonite Writing Journal, March 2012

“Spanish Moss,” a short story published in Center for Mennonite Writing Journal, April 2012

“OMG!! Geleijin Cornelus is Hott!!!,” a short story published in the anthology, Tongue Screws and Testimonies (Herald Press), November 2010

“The Skin of Electric Fish,” a short story published in The Dirty Napkin, Winter, 2008

“Mortise and Tenon,” a short story published in Relief, Fall 2006

Fiction: Tradition and Transformation: “The Thing She Rode” (short story presentation); Mennonite/s Writing VII, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California, March 2015

From Collaboration to Co-Teaching: Is Co-Teaching an Effective Method for Integrating Information Literacy Instruction into First-Year Composition courses? Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU), Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, May 2012

From Collaboration to Co-Teaching: Is Co-Teaching an Effective Method for Integrating Information Literacy Instruction into First-Year Composition courses? Information Literacy Summit at Moraine Valley Community College, Chicago, Illinois, May 2012

From Collaboration to Co-Teaching: Is Co-Teaching an Effective Method for Integrating Information Literacy Instruction into First-Year Composition courses? Illinois Center for Information Literacy at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, May 2012

“Men, Women, and Feminism,” panelist for Eastern Mennonite Student Women Association

Fear, Love, and Wanderlust: An Address in Three Parts, Eastern Mennonite University Baccalaureate Address, April 2016

“We Can’t Talk About Sexual Assault If We Don’t Talk About Sex” panelist for the Coalition on Sexual Violence Prevention, Eastern Mennonite University, April 2016

Research as Art and Transformation, Eastern Mennonite University, September 2010

Video Web Applications: Writing Tips for Web Logs, Eastern Mennonite University, March 2010

Seeing and Journeying: Kokoro in the Writings of Annie Dillard and Basho, Eastern Mennonite University, Honors Colloquium, January 2010

The City in Literature, Eastern Mennonite University, September 2007

The Arts in Education, James Madison University, March 2004

Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetics, Eastern Mennonite University, March 2004

The Maine Review; an online international reading hosted by The Maine Review, January, 2022

The Telephone Show; Larkin Arts Center, Wine-Riner Galleries, December, 2016

The Translated Word: A Reading and Discussion on Art and Translation; Staunton, Virginia, April 2014

Basho: A Celebration of Haiku; Harrisonburg, Virginia, October 2013

Black Swan Reading; Staunton, Virginia, June 2013

Howl and Echo: A Poetic Tribute to Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 2013

What I Assume You Shall Become: A Poetic Tribute to Walt Whitman; Harrisonburg, Virginia, September 2012

Dead Feathers: A Public Reading of Prose and Poetry; Staunton, Virginia, August 2011

Tongue Screws and Testimonies; a public reading in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the Arts Council of the Valley’s Smith House, January 2011

Tongue Screws and Testimonies; a public reading at Eastern Mennonite University, November 2010

A reading at the Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 2002

Shiang, J. J., Yoder, L. M., and Sension, R. J. “Structure and Function in the Isolated Reaction Center Complex of Photosystem II. 2. Models for Energy Relaxation and Charge Separation in a Protein Matrix.” J. of Phys. Chem. B, v 107 (9) 2162-2169 (2003).

Yoder, L. M., Cole, A. G. and Sension, R. J. “Structure and Function in the Isolated Reaction Center Complex of Photosystem II: Energy and Charge Transfer Dynamics and Mechanism.” Photosynthesis Research v 74 (3) 147-158 (2002).

Cole, A. G., Yoder, L. M., Shiang, J. J., Anderson, N. A., Walker II, L. A., Banaszak Holl, M. M., and Sension, R. J. “Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of B12 coenzymes: A comparison of the primary photolysis mechanism in methyl-, ethyl-, n-propyl- and 5’-deoxyadenosylcobalamin.” J. of the Am. Chem. Soc., v 124 (3), 434-441 (2002).

Yoder, L. M., Cole, A. G., Walker II, L. A., and Sension, R. J. “Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of B12 coenzymes: Influence of solvent on the photolysis of adenosylcobalamin.” J. of Phys. Chem. B, v 105 (48), 12180-12188 (2001).

John R. Barker, Laurie M. Yoder, and Keith D. King, Feature Article: “Vibrational Energy Transfer Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Polyatomic Reaction Systems”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 105, 796-809 (2001).

Laurie M. Yoder and John R. Barker, “Quasiclassical Trajectory Simulations of Pyrazine-Argon and Methylpyrazine-Argon van der Waals Cluster Predissociation and Collisional Energy Transfer”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 104, 10184-10193 (2000).

Laurie M. Yoder and John R. Barker, “Time of Flight Measurement of Recoil Energy Distributions from Vibrational Predissociation of van der Waals Clusters”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2, 813-21 (2000).

L. M. Yoder, J. R. Barker, K. T. Lorenz, et al, “Recoil Energy Disposal in the Vibrational Predissociation of Some Van Der Waals Dimers”, The American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA; August 22, 1999. (poster)

L. M. Yoder, J. R. Barker, K. T. Lorenz, and D. W. Chandler, “Recoil Energy Disposal in the Vibrational Predissociation of Some van der Waals Dimers”, at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA; 22-26 August 1999. (seminar)

Summer Teaching Grant, EMU, 2022. Course Development of PHYS 151 College Physics I and PHYS 162 College Physics II.

Co-PI, STEM Teachers Applying RJE Together (START). NSF-Noyce Grant 2021-2026

Summer Teaching Grant, EMU, 2020. Revision of General Chemistry I (CHEM 223) to Improve Student Access and Success through Use of an Open Textbook, New Online Homework, and Incorporation of Student Metacognition Strategies.

Summer Teaching Grant, EMU, 2018. Major Course Revision of CHEM 155 Matter and Energy to Incorporate an Inquiry-Based Laboratory Component.

National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions
Laboratory Safety Institute

Pre-Professional Health Advisor 2020-present

Faculty Athletics Representative 2026-present

Kang, S. J. & Shultz, R. (2023). Mission and education (Co-editors). Anabaptist Witness 20(10), 1-2.

Shultz, R. (2020). Teacher candidates' dispositions toward English learners: The impact of field experiences. AILACTE Journal, 17, 67-89.

Shultz, R. (2019). The Transformation of Teacher Candidates' Dispositions Toward English Language Learners in the Mainstream Elementary Classroom. Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations. (AAT 13419399) https://search.proquest.com/docview/2204934245?pq-origsite=gscholar 

Sprague, D., Groundwater, S., Opfer, T., Shultz, R. & St. Pierre, T. (2015).Expanding PhD Students’ Knowledge-Base: Skyping with the Experts. In D. Slykhuis & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (pp. 1062-1068). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/150136.

• Shultz, R. (2019, March). The Value of Varied Field Experiences for Enhancing the Preparation of Pre-Service Teachers to Work Effectively with English Learners in the Regular Classroom at the Spring 2019 VACTE/ATE-VA Conference: One Voice for Teacher Education in Richmond, VA.

• Shultz, R. (2019, February). The (Trans)Formation of Teacher Candidates' Dispositions Toward English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom.  Presentation at VANAME, Harrisonburg, VA.

• Shultz, R. (2014, August). Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for Effectiveness in a Diverse Classroom: The Significant Impact of a Cross-Cultural Experience. Presentation at the Summer Conference of the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), Niagara Falls, NY.

* Facilitator for the Clinical Faculty and Mentor Trainings, MidValley Consortium for Teacher Education, biannually 2016 to present.

* Mentorship and Clinical Experience Team (“Steering Committee” of the Midvalley Consortium), 2014 - present.

* Worship Team member at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church, September, 2011 – 2014, 2022 - present.

* Board Member for the Roberta Webb Early Educational Center, Harrisonburg, VA, 2023-2024.

* Discipleship Community team leader at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church, September, 2014 – August, 2016; 2020-2022.

* Presented "Education in a Cross-Cultural Setting" for pre-service missions training, VA Mennonite Missions, July 25, 2011.

* Missionary with Eastern Mennonite Missions in Cusco, Peru, as educator and support to the local church leadership, 2004-2010.

* Youth Pastor at Powhatan Mennonite Church, Powhatan, VA, 1999-2003.**

Galang, H., Hubbard-Wright, C., Hahn, D.S., Yost, G., Yoder, L., Maduro R.S., Morgan, M.K., & Zimbro, K.S.  (2020).  A randomized trial comparing outcomes of 3 types of periphseral intravenous catheters.  Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 35(1), 6-12. https://doi.org/10/1097/NCQ.0000000000000421

Kulbok, P., Yoder, L., Park, E., Tong, C. (June 2017). RO1 grant proposal submitted to NINR. Portfolio approach to sustainable wellness: Transitions from Adolescence to Adulthood. (Reviewed, scored, not funded)

Martin, S.E., Drake, E., Yoder, L., Gibson, M., Like, C.A. (Nov 2015). Active duty women’s perceptions of breastfeeding support in the military setting. Military Medicine.

Pitcock, N., Drake, E., Kulbok, P., Pineda, K., Gibson, M., Yoder, L. (Aug 2015). Evaluation of an initiative to increase exclusive breastfeeding among rural Hispanic women. Clinical Lactation.

Yoder, L.A.G., Xin, W., Norris, K.C., Yan, G. (2013). Patient care staffing levels and facility characteristics in U.S. hemodialysis facilities. American Journal of Kidney Disease, 62(6), 1130-1140.

Miller, A. D. (2019). Initial development of leader-follower relationships: Role, exchange and coordination. Academy of Management, Boston.

Vanhove, A. J., Miller A. D., Harms, P. D. (2018). Unemployed and Turking: Is Amazon Mechanical Turk a Viable Source for Unemployment Research? Academy of Management, Chicago

Showalter, D. A. (2021). Attitudinal changes in face-to-face and online statistical reasoning learning environments. Journal of Pedagogical Research, 5(2). doi: 10.33902/JPR.2021269257

Showalter. D. (2019). Replacing torture tests with broccoli quizzes. Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching [Special issue: Innovative teaching personal essays], 3(2), 160-165.

Kishbaugh, T.L., Cessna, S., Leaman, L., & Showalter, D. (2019). Seeking to improve retention through teaching strategies and peer tutoring. In Increasing Retention of Under-Represented Students in STEM through Affective and Cognitive Interventions. Washington, DC: ACS Books.

Showalter, D., Klein, R., Johnson, J., & Hartman, S.L. (2019). Why rural matters 2018–19: The time is now [Policy report]. Arlington, VA: Rural School and Community Trust. Available from www.ruraledu.org

Showalter, D. A., & Mullet, L. (2017). Sniffing out the secret poison: Selection bias in educational research. Mid-Western Educational Researcher, _29_(3).

Showalter, D. A. (2017). To math or not to math: The algebra-calculus pipeline and postsecondary mathematics remediation. Journal of Experimental Education, _85_(4). doi: 10.1080/00220973.2017.1299080.

Foley, G. D., Butts, T. R., Phelps, S. W., & Showalter, D. A. (2017). Advanced quantitative reasoning: Mathematics for the world around us, Revised Edition. Austin, TX: AQR Press.

Showalter, D., Klein, R., Johnson, J., & Hartman, S.L. (2017). Why rural matters 2015–16: Understanding the changing landscape [Online report]. Arlington, VA: Rural School and Community Trust. Available from www.ruraledu.org

Showalter, D. & Howley, C. (2016). Mathematics instruction for paraprofessionals [Set of 12 modules]. Dayton, OH: Ohio Partnership for Excellence in Paraprofessional Preparation.

Foley, G. D., Butts, T. R., Phelps, S. W., & Showalter, D. A. (2015). Advanced quantitative reasoning: Mathematics for the world around us, Texas Edition. Austin, TX: AQR Press.

Showalter, D. A. (2015). The game that does it all [Back Page: Favorite Lesson, April Issue]. Mathematics Teacher. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Howley, C., Howley, A., & Showalter, D. (2015). Leaving or staying home: Belief systems and paradigms in rural education. In T. Stambaugh & S. Wood (Eds.), Best practices for serving gifted students in rural settings. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.

Johnson, J., Showalter, D., Klein, R., & Lester, C. (2014). Why rural matters 2013–14: The condition of rural education in the 50 states [Online report]. Arlington, VA: Rural School and Community Trust. Available from www.ruraledu.org

Showalter, D. A., Wollett, C., & Reynolds, S. (2014). Teaching a high-level contextualized mathematics curriculum to adult basic learners. Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, _3_(2), 21–34.

Showalter, D. A. (2013). Place-based mathematics: A conflated pedagogy? Journal of Research in Rural Education, _28_(6), 1–13. Retrieved from http://jrre.psu.edu/articles/28-6.

Howley, C., Showalter, D., Klein, R., Sturgill, D., & Smith, M. (2013). Rural math talent, now and then. Roeper Review, 35, 102–114.

Howley, A., Showalter, D., Howley, M. D., Howley, C. B., Klein, R., & Johnson, J. (2011). Challenges for place-based mathematics pedagogy in rural schools and communities in the United States. Children, Youth and Environments, _21_(1), 101–127.

Math 350: Linear Algebra (2023)

Welty Peachey, Allysen M., Ethan R. Moses, Adesola J. Johnson, Meredith GM Lehman, James M. Yoder, Stefano G. De Faveri, Jodie Cheesman, Nicholas C. Manoukis, and Matthew S. Siderhurst. Wind effects on individual male and female Bactrocera jarvisi (Diptera: Tephritidae) tracked using harmonic radar. Environmental Entomology 54, no. 1 (2025): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvae108

Hurst, A.L., O′ Brien, A.L., Miller, N.D., Peachey, A.M.W., Yoder, J.M., De Faveri, S.G., Cheesman, J., Manoukis, N.C. and Siderhurst, M.S., (2024). Tracking and modeling the movement of Queensland fruit flies, Bactrocera tryoni, using harmonic radar in papaya fields. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.17521. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67372-4

Dukes, E., E. Castner, A. Leach, J. N. Galloway, J. Lloret, S. Messenger, A. Zheng, S. Baumgarn, J. Yoder, E. Royal, D. Wisteman. (2021). Introducing the nitrogen footprint in SIMAP: A review of improvements in nitrogen footprint methodology for institutions. Sustainability and Climate Change 14: 415-423. http://doi.org/10.1089/scc.2021.0048

Yoder, J., & Miller, B. (2014). Using Accreditation to Foster Education for Sustainability in Higher Education: The Implementation of the Peace with Creation Project at Eastern Mennonite University. In K. Thomas, & H. Muga (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Pedagogical Innovations for Sustainable Development (pp. 494-509). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5856-1.ch025

Graber Neufeld, D.S., and Yoder, J. (2011). The Role of Feeding Adaptations in Resource Competition between Invasive and Native Clams. Proceedings of ABLE. Pages 78-87, in Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, Volume 32 (K. McMahon, Editor). Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), 383 pages.

Yoder, J.M, C.A. Yoder, C.A. Devadason, and W. Cass. 2007. The Use of GIS in Determining the Spread and Impact of Invasive Plant Species Within a Wetland Community. Abstract. Virginia Journal of Science 58: xx

Yoder J.M. 2006. How the story of Jesus and the life of the church has shaped my interactions with students and my teaching practices. Proceedings of the 2006 Mennonite University Faculty Conference. Mennonite Education Agency.

Yoder J. M., D. A. Swanson, E. A. Marschall. 2004. The Cost of Dispersal: Predation as a function of movement in Ruffed grouse. Behavioral Ecology 15: 469-476.

Connor, E.F., J. M. Yoder, A. C. Courtney. 2000. Individuals-area relationships: The relationship between animal population density and area. Ecology 81:734-748

Connor, E.F., J.M. Yoder, J.A. May. 1999. Density-related predation by Poecile carolinensis on the Leaf-Mining Moth, Cameraria hamadryadella at three spatial scales. Oikos 87:105-112

Yoder, J.M., J.L. Dooley, J.F. Zawacki, M.A. Bowers. 1996. Female aggression in Microtus pennsylvanicus: Arena trials in the field. American Midland Naturalist 135: 1-8.

• Ecological watershed monitoring in the headwaters of the north fork of the Shenandoah River using macroinvertebrate and turtle surveys. D. Mendoza, S. Stoner, R. Keiner, D. S. Graber Neufeld & J.M. Yoder, Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Fredericksburg, VA. May 2016.

• An Integrated Ecological and Water Quality Assessment of the Headwaters of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, B. Yoder, J. Parker, D. G. Neufeld and J. Yoder. Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Harrisonburg, VA. May 2015.

• Changing Agricultural Impacts on Shenandoah Headwaters. Yoder, J.M., Graber-Neufeld, D., Wagner, B., Docherty, J.. Chesapeake Bay Agriculture Networking Forum. Cumberland, MD. November, 2014

• Measurement Of Invasive Plant Cover Changes To Prioritize And Assess Exotic Plant Control Efforts In A Rare Virginia Wetland. Yoder, J.M., Shenk, A., and Cass, W.. Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Ecological Society of America. Blacksburg, VA. April 2012

• Let’s Get Serious about Integrating Sustainability into General Education: Strategies for Staff and Faculty. Stewart, M, Yoder, J.M., Lantz-Trissel, J., and Rowe, D. Panel Discussion. Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Pittsburgh, PA. October 2011.

• Environmental Sustainability: A QEP for the 21st Century. Yoder, J.M. and Aracena, B., Southern Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY. December 2010.

• Measurement of native and invasive plant cover changes to improve planning and management in a rare Virginia wetland. Harman, C.H., Yoder J.M., Cass, W.B. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA. August 2010.

• Peace With Creation: A History of Sustainability at Eastern Mennonite University. Yoder. J.M., Peace on Earth: Anabaptism and Ecological Action in Aotearoa (Symposium), Waikanae, New Zealand, May, 2010

• The Use of GIS in Determining the Spread and Impact of Invasive Plant Species Within a Wetland Community (poster). Yoder J.M, C.A. Yoder, C.A. Devadason, and W. Cass. Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, Harrisonburg, VA. May, 2007.

• Mapping Invasive and Rare Wetland Plant Species to Visualize Competition and Devise a Control Strategy. Cass, W. and J. M. Yoder. Annual Meeting of the George Wright Society, St. Paul MN. April 2007.

• How the story of Jesus and the life of the church has shaped my interactions with students and my teaching practices. J. M. Yoder. Mennonite University Faculty Conference, Bluffton, OH. August, 2006.

• Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (Eastern Branch). March 2023.
• Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. [online]. August 2021.
• Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. [online]. October 2021.
• Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. [online]. August 2020.
• Rooted and Grounded Conference, AMBS, Elkhart, IN.  October 2019.
• Mid-Atlantic Stream Restoration Conference, Baltimore, MD. September 2017.
• Ecostream: Stream Ecology and Restoration Conference, Asheville, NC. August 2016.
• Virginia Academy of Sciences, Annual Meeting, Mary Washinton College, Fredricksburg, VA, May 2016
• Environment Virginia Symposium, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA. April 2016

“Speak Softly and Carry a Pencil: Glimpses of Walking Worthily.” In Jason Byassee, Albert Y. S. Chu, Tim Dickau, Ross A. Lockhart and Andrea Perrett, eds., The Continuing Witness of the Missional Church: The Impact of Darrell Guder’s Life and Teaching (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2025).

“Religion Has No Bo(u)nds? Expanding the Dimensions of Religion to the Attachment of Spiritual Friendship.” In Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community, ed. Anne-Marie Ellithorpe, Laura Duhan-Kaplan and Hussam S. Timani. Religion and Borders series, ed. Alexander Y. Hwang. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023, 209-25.

[Editor] Collected Essays of Richard R. Osmer. Seattle, WA: Kindle Direct Publishing. October 2022.

“The Self Unveiled: The Dis-integration of Mennonite Women’s Head Coverings.” In Resistance: Addressing Violence in a Peace Church, ed. Cameron Altaras and Carol Penner. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2022.

“Mission as Distraction? A Critical Twist on Formation and Mission in Anabaptist Communities on the Möbius Loop.” Anabaptist Witness 9, No. 1 (April 2022): 37-56.

“Anabaptist Mennonites in North America, 1683-2021.” Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. February 7, 2021. https://religiondatabase.org/browse/968/

“Reframing the Self(ie).” Journal of Youth and Theology 16, No. 1 (2017): 25-45.

“Searching for Self: Community as a Conduit for God’s Deepest Transformation,” in Education with the Grain of the Universe: A Nonviolent Program for the Future of Mennonite Schools, Colleges, and Universities, ed. J. Denny Weaver, 194-207. Telford, PA: Cascadia, 2017.

“The Violent Shadow: Considering John Howard Yoder’s Sexual Misconduct from a Jungian Psychological Perspective.” Princeton Theological Review 19, No. 1 (Spring 2016): 5-19.

"Friendliness without Belonging? The Paradox of Youth Attachment in American Religion." June 8, 2023. International Academy of Practical Theology biannual conference. Seoul, South Korea.

"Friends in Crisis: Rediscovering Early Anabaptist Leaders within a Catholic Friendship Tradition." Nov. 21, 2022. American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Denver, CO.

"Networks of Belonging: Adolescent Attachment in Congregations." July 13, 2022. International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry biennial conference, Atlanta, GA.

"Historical Restor(y)ation at the Lincoln Homestead." February 15, 2022. HIST 422: U.S. History, 1789-1848, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

­­"Networked Bonds: An Attachment-Informed Vision for Spiritual Friendship." Nov. 22, 2021. American Academy of Religion annual meeting, San Antonio, TX.

“Reimagining Youth Ministry through an Attachment Ecclesiology." April 21, 2021. Institute for Youth Ministry Research Gathering, Princeton Theological Seminary.

"'Musing on Cicero’s Thoughts': Methodology in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Practical Theology of Spiritual Friendship." December 10, 2020. American Academy of Religion annual meeting.

"A Great Co-mission: Heeding Women’s Problematization of 'Teaching Them.'" December 1, 2020. Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting.

"Congregation as Safe Haven and Secure Base? Youth Ministry from An Attachment Perspective." January 3, 2019. International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry conference, Durham, UK.

"Attachment to Religious Group: A New Interdisciplinary Conception of Adolescents in Congregations." August 12, 2018. Association for the Sociology of Religion annual conference, Philadelphia, PA.

"Scenes from the Upper Room: Expectations and Transformations.” July 7-8, 2023. Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly, Kansas City, MO.

"Great Expectations? Rejoicing and Mourning in One Body." May 30, 2022. Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly, Kansas City, MO (with Malinda Berry).

"From Servant to Friends." February 6, 2021. Virginia Mennonite Conference winter delegate session, Harrisonburg, VA.

"Christian Formation throughout the Life Course." July 19, 2019. Virginia Mennonite Conference Assembly, Harrisonburg, VA.

"Unexpected Encounters: God Surprises." February 1-3, 2018. Mennonite Educators Conference, Leesburg, VA.

Resolutions Committee. 2020-24. Mennonite Church USA, Elkhart, IN.

Membership Guidelines Advisory Group. 2019. Mennonite Church USA, Elkhart IN.

Prayer Coordinator. 2019. Mennonite Church USA biennial convention, Kansas City, MO.

Missional Formation Cohort Co-Convener, with Dr. Lisa Bowens. 2018-19. Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ.

Journey Forward: Embracing God’s Hope Writing Team. 2017-19. Mennonite Church USA, Elkhart, IN.

Educational Standards Working Group. 2017-18. Association of Theological Schools Accreditation, Princeton Theological Seminary.

Pastoral Transition Team. 2017. Oxford Circle Mennonite Church, Philadelphia, PA.

Adult Worship Planning Committee Chair. 2015-17. Mennonite Church USA biennial convention, Orlando, FL.

Alumni Association President. 2011-13. Eastern Mennonite University.

Regional Development Grant for Hybrid Pedagogy Workshop. $3000. February 2024. American Academy of Religion.

Christian Parenting and Caregiving Grant for the Conectere Project at Eastern Mennonite University (Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, with Greg Czyszczon and Almeda Wright). $1,248,874. June 2023. Lilly Endowment Inc., Indianapolis, IN.

External Resource Matching Grant for Eastern Mennonite Seminary. $15,000. July 2022. In Trust Center for Theological Schools, Wilmington, DE.

Wabash Consulting Grant for Eastern Mennonite University in intercultural and interreligious education (with Dr. Tim Seidel). July 2022. Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Crawfordsville, IN.

Pathways for Tomorrow Phase 2 Grant for the Penuel Project at Eastern Mennonite Seminary (primary writer). $998,606. June 2022. Lilly Endowment Inc., Indianapolis, IN.

Research Grant in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies. $1000. July 2020. Mennonite Historical Society, Goshen, IN.

Princeton Theological Seminary Doctoral Fellowship and Ph.D. Merit Tuition Scholarship. 2016-21. Fully funded program with tuition and stipend for 5 years, awarded to 10 students annually.

Louisville Institute Doctoral Fellowship. 2017-19. Two-year fellowship awarded annually to 10 doctoral students showing promise for teaching and scholarship in theological education.

Arthur Paul Rech Memorial Award in Theology and Pastoral Ministry. 2016. Awarded annually to one Princeton Seminary senior demonstrating academic excellence in practical theology and a personal commitment to the practice of ministry in the church.

William Tennent Scholarship. 2015. Awarded annually to one rising senior at Princeton Seminary showing special interest and ability in the teaching aspects of the work of the church.

Marguerite Young Endowment Fund Scholarship. 2015. Scholarship for select Master of Divinity students, granted by the Pittsburgh Foundation.

FS 504 Formation in Narrative Identity

SMCL 512 Ministry with Children and Adolescents

SMCL 521 Teaching for Christian Community

SMCL 564 Theological Reflections on Trauma

SMCL 611 Pastoral Care

FS 698 & 699 Formation in Vocation and Leadership I and II

DMIN 760 Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care

The Little Book of Restorative Justice, 2nd Edition (Good Books 2015).

Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times, 25th Anniversary Edition (Herald Press, 2015)

Pickups: A Love Story (Good Books, 2013).

What Will Happen to Me (with Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz) (Good Books, 2010).

Critical Issues in Restorative Justice (ed., with Barb Toews) (Criminal Justice Press, 2004).

The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding (General series editor; following titles are part of that series)

The Little Book of Contemplative Photography (Good Books, 2005).

The Little Book of Family Group Conferencing, New Zealand Style (Good Books, 2004). With Allan MacRae.

The Little Book of Restorative Justice (Good Books, 2002). (Translated into Japanese, Czech, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Ukrainian, German etc..; an adapted version, with Ali Gohar, published in Pakistan in English, Pushto, Urdu and Persian; also translated in Iran and other countries.)

Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims (Good Books, 2001). (Japanese edition, 2006)

Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Without Parole (Good Books, 1996). (Japanese edition, 2006)

Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice (Herald Press, 1990; revised 1995; Third Edition 2005). Published in Russian (1998), Japanese (2003), Ukranian (2004), Korean (2011), Arabic, Portuguese (Brazil 2008). Italian and others in process.

Crime and the Development of Modern Society: Patterns of Criminality in Nineteenth Century Germany and France (Croom Helm, 1976).

Recent articles & chapters:

“The Art of Justice: a reply to Brunilda Pali,” Restorative Justice: An International Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 95-102.

“Art That Heals,” in Mural Arts @ 30, edited by Jane Golden and David Updike, Paulette Moore co-author (Temple University Press, 2014).

“Art Helps Heal Crime’s Wounds,” Invited op-ed (“Opinion”) article, Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/6/12

“Restorative Justice and the Death Penalty” in The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond, edited by Drs. Dussich and Schellenberg (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010)

“Intersection of Restorative Justice with Trauma Healing, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. 18., No. 1-2, 20-30.

Essay and photos in Visual Restoration by Phoebe Zinman, (Philadelphia, PA: Mural Arts Program, 2009)

Cover endorsements for various books including Sunny Schwartz, Dreams from the Monster Factory (Scribner) and Cheryl Swanson, Restorative Justice in a Prison Community (Lexington Books)

Forward for Elaine Enns & Ched Myers, Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking (forthcoming, Orbis)

“The Role of Restorative Justice in Peacebuilding,” Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2008, 19-36

“Restorative Justice in Death Penalty Cases: Defense-Initiated Victim Outreach.”– chapter to be included in John Dussich and Jill Schellenberg, Restorative Justice in Unlikely Places (forthcoming)

Foreword to Paul Redekop, Changing Paradigms: Punishment and Restorative Discipline (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2007)

“Why Can’t We Just Apologize?”, Crime Victims Report, Vol 11, No. 3, July/August 2007 p. 38.

Foreword to new English edition of Nils Christie, Limits to Pain (2007).

Preface to the Japanese edition of The Little Book of Restorative Justice.

Short column in New Zealand for “Ideas from the Edge,” _New Zealand Inspired_(UK), Feb/Mar. 2008 (p. 30).

“Doing Justice, Healing Trauma: The Role of Restorative Justice in Peacebuilding” Peace Track, Spring 2008 (WISCOMP, India).

Foreword, Martin Wright, Restoring Respect for Justice, 2nd edition (UK: Waterside Press, 2008)

Foreword, Jarem Sawatsky, Justpeace Ethical Guide for Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding (working title; Cascade Books, forthcoming)

Foreword, Margot Van Sluytman, Sawbonna: I See You. Dialogue of Hope (forthcoming)

“The Core Meaning of Restorative Justice, ” www.washingtonspark.org, 14 April 2007.

“Slavery Apology: admit wrongs; realize lasting impact,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed, 3/13/07.

“Capital Punishment is about vengeance, not justice,” Sojourners, April 2007 (46-47).

“A Christmas reflection on the death penalty” – released by EMU news service and used by various publications, 12/06.

Op-ed piece on apology – released by EMU news service and used by various publications, 3/07.

“Reframing Justice,” http://kcstories.com/kcolivebranch/WordPress.

“Signposts and markers on a circuitous road: Standards and values in restorative justice,” in New Frontiers in Restorative Justice, Warwick Tie, Shirley Juelich and Vicky Walters (eds.). (Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Center for Justice and Peace Development, 2006).

“Justice: Retribution or Restoration,” http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org, September 2006.

“The Ideas of Engagement and Empowerment,” in Handbook of Restorative Justice, Dan Van Ness and Gerry Johnstone (eds.) (UK: Willan, 2006) (Co-author Jennifer Larson Sawin)

“A vision for restorative justice in the next decade,” public lecture at National Institute of Criminal Sciences (INACIPE), Mexico City, 7/7/14
Public lecture, “Wild Dreams and Realistic Visions,” Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 10/20/14
“The Art of Justice,” public lecture and workshop, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada 11/15/14
Public lecture (After Selma: The Challenge of Human Rights and Justice), University of Alabama Birmingham 3/19/15; also guest instructor in two university classes.

2013-2014 presentations:

“A vision for restorative justice in the next decade,” public lecture at National Institute of Criminal Sciences (INACIPE), Mexico City, 7/7/14
Critical commentator keynote, Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Restorative Justice Policy in Aotearoa, Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand10/16-17/14
Meeting with Urban Vision, Wellington, New Zealand 10/19/14
National Restorative Justice Conference, Banff, AB, Canada 11/17-18/14: Keynote: “Looking Back to Look Forward;” Moderator, restorative justice participant panel; participant, closing Samoan circle
Keynote, Gemeineschaft Home annual dinner, Harrisonburg, VA 4/11/15
Keynote, Re-visioning Justice in America conference, Nashville, TN 4/18/15
Taught class, Baptist Seminary, Richmond, VA 2/4/15
Met with class, Talladega College, Talladega, AL 3/20/15

2013-2014 presentations include:

Lecture, “Intersection of RJ with trauma healing, conflict transformation and peacebuilding,” DePauw University, Greencastle, PA, 4/4/14
Film discussion facilitation and lecture, Notre Dame University, Center for Social Concerns, Notre Dame, IN, 4/7-8/14
Closing keynote, Resistance to Mass Incarceration: Explore Restorative Justice in Chicago teach-in, Criminal Justice Society, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 4/10/14
“Restorative Justice and the Mennonites: What Were We Thinking?, Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society, Eastern Mennonite University, 4/14/14, with Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz
Skype presentation to class, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, Robert Brenneman professor, 3/31/14
Lecture to undergraduate honors class& evening public lecture, University of North Carolina Greensboro 10/30/13
Skype presentation to class, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, Robert Brenneman professor, 3/31/14

2011-2012 presentations include:

Co-instructor, RJ class, NARPI (Northeast Asia Regional Peace Institute) 8/16-17 (with Jae Young Lee and Carl Stauffer) intensive 5-day restorative justice course, Seoul, South Korea
Lecture, Higher Education Symposium, 2011 Pennsylvania Conference on Juvenile Justice, Harrisburg, PA 11/2/11
First Liz Elliott Memorial Lecture, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada 11/21/11
Skype presentation to Mindanao Peaebuilding Institute, Philippines 5/29/12
Guest lecturer, criminal justice class, National College, Harrisonburg 7/19/11
Seoul, South Korea 8/8-8/18: Lecture, Ewha Women’s University Law School 8/11 (RJ Centre sponsor) Lecture, Soongshil University (Social Welfare Dept. sponsor) 8/12 Lecture, Korea Institute of Criminology 8/12

2010-2011 presentations:

Canadian School of Peacebuilding, Canadian Mennonite University 6/28-7/2/2010
Plenary speaker and panelist and workshop facilitator, 3rd National Restorative Justice Conference, Raleigh, NC 6/8-9/11
Public lecture, University of Hamburg, Germany 11/19/10
All-day seminar, Institute for Peace Theology, University of Hamburg, Germany, 11/20/10
All-day seminar, ComPax, Bienenberg Theological Seminary, Switzerland 11/10

“Restorative justice: Principles of a justice that transforms,” Keynote and panel, National restorative justice conference Tamaulipas, Mexico 7/3-4/14
Keynote, Diocese of San Diego restorative justice conference, San Diego, CA, 10/11/14
National Restorative Justice Conference, Banff, AB. 11/17-18/14: keynote: “Looking Back to Look Forward;” moderator, restorative justice participant panel; participant, closing Samoan circle
Keynote, Gemeineschaft Home annual dinner, Harrisonburg, VA 4/11/15
Keynote, Re-visioning Justice in America conference, Nashville, TN 4/18/15

Media & interviews 2014-2015 include:

“Jails, Prisons Failing in Justice,” Op-Ed, Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, VA 6/20/14
Videotaped conversation with poet and human rights activist Javier Sicilia, Mexico 7/7/14
Interview by reporter Dante Ferrasoll Geraldo for Folha de S.Paulo paper (Brazil) 9/12/14
Interview by Christine Armario, Associated Press, 1/7/15
http://www.katc.com/story/27817354/in-la-policy-shift-yields-decline-in-school-suspensions
Radio interview, Virginia Insight, WMRA, Harrisonburg, VA 1/8/15
Interview with Mark Obbie, journalist and Soros Fellow, for upcoming series on justice 3/25/15
Interview with Sanjena Sathian of OZY Media for a story on restorative justice and architecture featuring Deanna Van Buren 3/27/15

2013-2014 presentations:

Public presentation, Glenwood Springs, CO, 5/7/13
Keynote presentation and film dialogue facilitation/panel, 2013 Restorative Justice Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO, 5/9-10/13
Teleconference lecture & Q&A, justice class, Educación Continua ENES UNAM León, Mexico City, 6/15/13
Dialogue with restorative justice group, Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, OR, 6/25/13
2013 Northwest Justice Forum, Portland, OR: Opening plenary keynote, with Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, and dinner keynote; also panel participant, 6/26-27/13
•NAACP Legal Defense Fund annual national capital defender’s conference, workshop presenter and plenary panelist, Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton, VA 7/13-14/13
Plenary address (with Carl Stauffer), Virginia Mediation Network Conference, EMU, 9/28/13.
Introduction to restorative justice by Skype to Washington DC training 10/10/13
Training presentation, James Madison University Judicial Affairs and Student Life, 2/27/14
“Contemplative photography,” Rocktown Camera Club, Harrisonburg, VA, 3/24/14

2011-2012 presentations:

Award dinner keynote, 3rd National Restorative Justice Conference, Raleigh, NC. Also film workshop “Concrete, Steel & Paint.” 6/9-10/11
Lecture, RJ Seminar, Civil Society Network for Restorative Justice, Seoul, South Korea 8/13
Lecture, Korea Organization for Victim Assistance conference/training, Seoul, South Korea 8/14
Lake Junaluska, NC: 2011 Evans Lectureship, “Re-visioning Justice” 9/30/11 Workshop: “Restorative Justice & Criminal Justice Reform” 10/1/11 Workshop: “Photography, Contemplation, and the Work of Justice” 10/1/11
Asheville, NC: Sunday discussion with Mennonite Fellowship 10/2/11
“Journalism through a Shalom Lens, workshop, Anabaptist Communicators Annual Meeting, 10/28/11 “What Will Happen to Me?” – lecture, Shenandoah Valley Lyceum at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Center, 11/4/11
Presentation/interview to Latin America, via teleconference 12/6/11
Presentation to 30+ judges in Costa Rica, via teleconference 12/13/11
Workshop presentation, Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges 2012 Mid-Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA 2/25/12
Panelist, “Broken on All Sides” (film), Prisons Expanding, School Closing conference, Community College of Philadelphia, 2/25/12
Public lecture, “A Brief History of the Victim-Offender and Restorative Justice Movements,” Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society (with Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz), Strasburg, PA 2/27/12
Videotaped lecture and skyped Q&A session, restorative justice conference, Taiwan, 3/4/12
Restorative Justice & the Legacy of Slavery, workshop, Coming to the Table conference, Richmond, VA 3/17/12
Presenter, Prisons, Profits & the Church Workshop, Ecumenical Advocacy Days, Arlington, VA 3/25/12
Keynote & workshop, Arts & Criminal Justice Symposium, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA 4/27/12

Media & interviews 2013-14:

Interview with Naveena Kottoor, feature writer for BBC website, 7/30/13. Story: “How Do People Forgive a Crime Like Murder?” BBC News Magazine 8/19/13.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23716713
Interview with Newstalk (Ireland radio) on the Moncrieff Show with Sean Moncrieff. 8/22/13
Interview with Bob Corso, WHSV TV, 9/12/13
Interview with Sharyn Jackson, Des Moines Register, 10/11/13
Interview with Dax-Devlon Ross for “The Politics of Atonement: Finding Restorative Justice in Massachusetts, Next City (http://nextcity.org/forefront/view/the-politics-of-atonement)
Background interview with David Perry, writer for Edge Media Network, 1/30/14
Interview with John Shuck on seven Tennessee-area NPR stations and podcast (http://religionforlife.podomatic.com), 2/27-3/6/14
Background interview with Sam Piranty, Current Affairs, BBC for upcoming documentary on restorative justice, 3/4/14
Interview by Natasha Alford for Medill News Service?CAN-TV for video on potential of restorative justice to transform juvenile justice, 4/10/14
Interviewed for and quoted in obituary for Dr. Vincent Harding, AP: The Big Story (http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/vincent-harding-activist-king-aide-dies-82) 5/21/14

Media & Interviews 2011-2012:

Interview, “The State of Things, WUNC North Carolina Public Radio, Durham, NC 6/7/11
Interview for documentary video, South Korea
Interview with TaMaryn Waters of the Tallahassee Democrat, ClarionLedger.com 9/3/11
Interview with Natalie Dohner for James Madison University, The Breeze 8/25/11
Interview with Danielle Smith, American Urban Radio Network, 9/21/11
Skype interview, Bluffton University class, 4/17/12
On-line interview, Center for Building a Culture of Empathy, posted at http://cultureofempathy.com/References/Experts/Others/Howard-Zehr.htm
Guest blog, “A Space for Wisdom,” www.justicewithacrunch.com
Guest blog, “Relationships Matter,” www.visualpeacemakers.org

2010-2011 presentations:

Opening plenary and workshop, European Forum for Restorative Justice conference, Bilbao, Spain, 6/17-8/2010
Keynote and two workshops, German Mennonite/Quaker Peace Conference, Karlsruhe (Thomashof), Germany, 11/26-11/27
Keynote and plenary dialogue, Restorative Justice Symposium, Pikes Peak Restorative Justice Council, Colorado Springs, CO 9/23-24/10
Noon lecture, Clinton School of Public Policy, Little Rock, AR, 3/4/11
Public presentation, St. John’s Diocese, Little Rock, AR 3/3/11
Public presentation, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, AR, 3/4/11
Sunday School and consultation, Albuquerque Mennonite Church, Albuquerque, NM, 9/19/10
Shalom Sunday School class, Parkview Mennonite Church, “Restorative Justice as a case study in engagement in the world” 1/16/11
EMU undergraduate theory class (Gloria Rhodes, instructor), 2/1/11
Speaker, Eastern Mennonite High School (Ryan Beuthin, instructor), 2/23/11
Meeting with WAGGE Hannover staff, Germany 11/23

Media & interviews 2010-2011

School Library Journal
AOL Black Voices (interviewer Jeff Mays) 1/14/11
Consciousness magazine (interviewer Lee Harris) 12/28/10
Michael Eric Dyson Show (public radio) 1/26/11: http://dysonshow.org/?p=3874
Ebony on line 1/26/11: http://www.ebony.com/politics/national/whatwillhappentome.as
Radio in Black & White, WPRR Grand Rapids, MI 2/7/11
Interview with Rosa Morales, a writer for Flint, MI-based Mi Gente magazine, and the community paper Saginaw News
American Urban Radio Networks (AURN), Danielle Smith, 2/9/11
Education Week, Elizabeth Rich, 2/9/11
The Emily Rooney Show, WHBH Boston, with Stacey Bouchet, 2/23/11
WWRL New York 3/9/11
WYPR-NPR Baltimore, with Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, 2/28/11
Inside Detroit, Mildred in the Morning, AM 1200 WCHB 4/7/11
Interviewed by Danielle Smith for American Urban Radio Network (AURN), 2/15/11
“When a Parent is in Prison,” article and slideshow, Education Week 4/13/11 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/04/12/28zehr.h30.html?r=1002740661
Interview by Winchester Star about exhibit “Leaf. Flower. Spiral.” 2/21/11.
Interviewed by Mark Fonseca Rendeiro in Amsterdam for an article in “United Academics” as well as a podcast at http://citizenreporter.org/2011/02/ctrp368-understanding-restorative-justice/. 2/14/11
Guest blog contributor, International Guild of Visual Peacemakers (www.visualpeacemakers.org)
Interview, Crossroad Connection, a justice radio program aired on Christian radio stations and the web. Interviewed 9/17/10. www.cbi.fm

Photo exhibit, “Autumn Leaves: Reflections on Aging,” Spitzer Art Center, Harrisonburg, VA 5/1-5/30/15
Photo exhibit, Pickups: A Love Story, Spitzer Art Center, Harrisonburg, VA 2014 “Down to the River,” 3-person photo exhibit, Lehman Gallery, EMU (with Steve Johnson and Scott Jost), 9/11
Photo Exhibit “Leaf. Flower. Spiral. The Flow of Energy in the Natural World,” with Steve Johnson and Scott Jost, State Arboretum of Virginia, Boyce, VA 2/6-2/28/11. Opening 2/13/11. (Also two-person exhibit in Harrisonburg First Friday, 5/6/11)
“When a Parent is in Prison,” article and slideshow, Education Week 4/13/11 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/04/12/28zehr.h30.html?r=1002740661
Documentary photo/interview project, Our Community Place, Harrisonburg 4/11ff (with Daria White, Anna Maria Johnson, Nathan Toews, Shannon Pollock and Giles Charle’), to result in exhibit.
Documentary photography, Girls, Inc., Hagerstown, MD (with Jenn Dorsch), 3/28/11

Earlier:
Featured artist, Beyond Words: Imaging a Visual Spirituality” retreat (one forum, one keynote, one workshop), Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, Laurelville, PA 10/24-26/08.
Review and consultation of forthcoming documentary film, “Steel, Concrete, and Paint,” Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA.
Remarks, book release and exhibit opening: Visual Restoration,” Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA 4/17/09
When a Parent is in Prison: Documentary photo exhibit, with Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, available for loan from Mennonite Central Committee’s Audiovisual Resource Library. A book is in process.
A ladder without rungs: exploring metaphors of trauma. Art exhibit including photos, paintings and reflections, with Judah Oudshoorn and Manas Ghanem, Eastern Mennonite University Art Gallery, 11/05. Also exhibited in Ontario, Canada March-April 2006 and Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH, Feb-March 2007. A smaller traveling version is available for loan from Mennonite Central Committee.

2013-14 includes:
Training presentation, James Madison University Judicial Affairs and Student Life, 2/27/14
Lawyer and restorative justice palaver, Harrisonburg, VA 11/22-23/13
Meetings with advisory board, alumni, faculty, staff and administrations, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 10/30/13
Participation in Harrisonburg task force on restorative justice and policing.

2011-2012 includes:

Lawyer and restorative justice palaver – organized and helped facilitate a gathering of lawyers implementing restorative justice in their practice, Harrisonburg, VA 11-13/11

2010-2011 includes:

External Review Team, James Madison University Justice Studies Program, 4/11
Ph.D. dissertation examiner, Anne Hayden, AUT (Auckland Institute of Technology), Auckland, New Zealand

“Howard Zehr Roast,” Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA 5/23/15
2015 Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award, University of Alabama Birmingham, 3/19/15
Mahatma Gandhi Community Service Award, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University, 10/2/13
Virginia Social Science Association (VSSA) 2014 Public Service Award 4/19/14
Awarded Michael Sattler Peace Prize, Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany, 11/25 “Howard Zehr Award” established by the Restorative Justice Centre, Pretoria, South Africa 2/11
International Peace Award 2006, Community of Christ; Lifetime Achievement Award
Journal of Law and Religion, 2006
The Howard Zehr Award (first annual award)
Restorative Justice Association of Virginia, 2005
Annual Peacebuilder Award, New York Dispute Resolution Association, 2003
Restorative Justice Prize, Prison Fellowship International, 2003.

Member: National Center for Victims of Crime; Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; Justice Studies Association.

Gingrich, C.D., E. Ricotta, A. Kahawa, C. Kahabuka, and H. Koenker (2017) “Demand and Willingness-to-Pay for Bed Nets in Tanzania: Results from a Choice Experiment” Malaria Journal 16:285.

Gingrich, C.D., R. Swartzentruber, and J.H. Kraybill (2016) “Religion and Fairness in the Ultimatum Game: Examining Mennonite Beliefs and Actions,” Journal of Religion and Business Ethics 3.

Gingrich, C.D. (2013) Review of the book Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s by Douglas A. Irwin, Global Journal of Economics 2(2): 1380005.

Gingrich, C.D., K. Hanson, V. Rweyendela, and T. Piper (2014) “Does Free Distribution of Mosquito Nets Affect Subsidized Net Sales? Evidence from a Nationwide Campaign in Tanzania,” The Journal of International Development 26(6):749-762

Gingrich, C.D. and E.J. King (2012) “Does Fair Trade Fulfill the Claims of its Proponents? Measuring the Global Impact of Fair Trade on Participating Coffee Farmers,” Journal of Cooperatives 26:17-39.

Gingrich, C.D., K. Hanson, T. Marchant, J. Mulligan, and H. Mponda (2011) “Price Subsidies and the Market for Mosquito Nets in Developing Countries: A Study of Tanzania’s Discount Voucher Scheme,” Social Science and Medicine 73(1):160-168.

Gingrich, C.D., K. Hanson, T. Marchant, J. Mulligan, and H. Mponda (2011) “Household Demand for Insecticide Treated Bednets in Tanzania and Policy Options for Increasing Uptake,” Health Policy and Planning 26 (2):133-141.

Gingrich, C.D. and J.D. Garber (2010) “Trade Liberalization’s Impact on Agriculture in Low Income Countries: A Comparison of El Salvador and Costa Rica,” Journal of Developing Areas 43(2):1-17.

Dulal, H., C. Gingrich, and R. Stough (2008) “Do Microfinance Programmes Really Serve the Poor? Evidence from Rural Southeast Nepal,” Journal of South Asian Development 3(2): 253-68.

Gingrich, C.D. (2004) “Community-Based Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Nepal: A Sustainable Means for Microfinance Delivery?” Journal of Microfinance 6(1): 21-39 .

Gingrich, C.D. and P.W. Gallagher (2002) “Health Production and Heteroscedasticity in Low-Income Households in Lima, Peru,” in Behavior of Household Investment in Health: The Case of Peru, R. Cortez, ed., Lima: Universidad del Pacifico Press.

Gingrich, C.D., C.D. Horst, and C.O. Umidha (2001) “Foreign Exchange, Food Security, and Financial Crises in Indonesia and the Philippines,” ASEAN Economic Bulletin 18(3): 305-19.

Developing Early Literacy Skills in a Resource Poor School in Lesotho, Africa. 13th Annual Summer Literacy Institute: Literacy Goes Global, July 21, 2016, Longwood University, Farmville, VA.

Lesotho, Africa: The Land of Unintended Consequences. SPRINGSPIRATION conference, Shenandoah Valley Reading Council, April 15, 2016. Harrisonburg, VA.

Touching Lives of Teachers and Students from Latin America to Africa. Virginia State Reading Association Conference 2016, Norfolk, VA.

It’s a Mirror, It’s a Window, It’s a Door: Finding Quality Multicultural Children’s Literature to Promote Culturally Responsible Children. Shenandoah Regional Spring Conference 2016 for the Virginia Association of School Librarians, Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA.

From the Cradle to the Grave: The Role of Executive Function Skills in Anabaptist Education. Mennonite Education Conference: Mennonite Education: Past, Present and Future: Bluffton University Fall, 2015, Bluffton, Ohio.

“Learning by Doing: Preparing Undergraduate Candidates to Teach Reading through Practicum Experiences” Presenter at the VACTE/ATE-VA Spring Conference, 2015, Roanoke, VA.

“Voices from the Field: Preservice teachers reflect on their practicum experience and development as reading teachers” Co-presenter with Sandy Brownscombe at the VACTE?ATE-VA Spring Conference, 2015, Roanoke, VA.

“Write Like the Character” Presenter at the Virginia State Reading Conference 2011, Roanoke, VA.

Workshops:

“ Renew, Rekindle, and Rejuvenate Your Love for Words” Presenter at the Shenandoah Valley Reading Council Fall Conference 2009

“ Keeping Your Child Engaged during Read Alouds.” demonstrated reading and questioning strategies that parents can use while they read to their child to enhance engagement and comprehension of the story. Staunton City Public Schools Title I Parent Night, 2009

“ Connecting Reading and Writing: “I Don’t Want to Write Blues.” shared ideas about how to help students write nonfiction through developing prior knowledge at the Shenandoah Valley Reading Council’s Winter Conference. 2006, Waynesboro, VA.

“ Authentic Assessment: Developing Rubrics.” shared research and guided teachers in writing rubrics to assess student outcomes and add to the current portfolio system. Shenandoah Valley Adventist Elementary In-Service, 2006. Woodstock, VA

“ Documenting Student Learning: The How’s and Why’s of Portfolios.” Shenandoah Valley Adventist Elementary In-Service, 2005. Woodstock, VA

Reading First Academy, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, University of Virginia, VA, Second Grade Institute Summer 2008

Reading First Academy, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, University of Virginia, VA, Third Grade Institute Summer 2007

Reading First Academy, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, University of Virginia, VA First Grade Institute
Spring 2005

• Workshop- Revisiting Word Study as a Tool to Develop Word Recognition and Orthographic Knowledge.
  Linville-Edom Elementary School, 2011-2012
• Workshop- Providing Small Group Reading Instruction to Meet the Instructional need of All students.
  Eastern Mennonite Elementary School, 2008-2009
• Consultant- helped develop writing curriculum for K-5
• Guest Storyteller for February Reading Month

Shenandoah Valley Reading Council, 1997 to present.

• Treasurer 2000-2002
• Chairperson for Young Author’s Celebration Northern End- 2002 to present.

• early primary PK-3
• elementary 3-6
• middle school 6-8
• reading specialist

EDLA 592 Differentiated Reading Instruction in Grades 3-8

Developing Vocabulary and Word Knowledge in Grades K-8

Author, Why We Fight: Conflict in Congregations. The Church Network Insight, Winter 2017.

Author, When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Declining Trust in Institutions. The Church Network Insight, Winter, 2016.

Author, Shared Identity and Shared Purpose: Two Essentials for a Healthy Organization. The Mennonite, March, 2015.

Compiler, Conflict Resolution in the Workplace: What Will the Future Bring? Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Vol. 31, Number 4 (Summer 2014)

Author, Welcoming “Voice” in Organizations. Shalom! Journal, Fall, 2013.

Author, Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations. Alban Institute, 2009.

Co-Author, The Little Book of Healthy Organizations. Good Books, 2009.

Author, Leading Healthy Organizations in a Turbulent Environment. Monday Developments, Nov/Dec 2008; Interaction.

Author, Organizational Conflict Intervention: An Arena for Justice Making. ACResolution Magazine, Summer, 2008; Association for Conflict Resolution.

Editor, Groups: Process, Conflict, Systemic Change. Chapter 5 in Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual; Mennonite Conciliation Service, 2000.

Co-Author, Conflict in Congregations. Chapter 15 in Making Peace with Conflict: Practical Skills for Conflict Transformation; Herald Press, 1999.

Co-Author, Conflict Transformation Training in Another Culture: A Case Study from Angola. Mediation Quarterly, Spring, 1999.

Author, Organizational Trauma Recovery: The God’s Fellowship Community Church Reconciliation Process, in the Consensus Building Handbook, 1999.

• “Coaching Change in Organizations: From Conflict Resolution to Organizational Development.” Presentation to the Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference, October 8, 2015, Reno, NV.

• “Rebuilding Harmony in Houses of Worship: Resolving Conflicts in Faith-Based Congregations.” Full-day Workshop for the Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference, October 11, 2014, Cincinnati, OH.

• “Coaching Organizations in Developing Integrated Conflict Management Systems: A Restorative Perspective” (with Sigal Shoham). Presentation to the Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference, October 10, 2013, Minneapolis, MN.

• “Learning from Peace Processes in Deeply Divided Societies: The Role of Faith-Based Peacebuilders.” Presentation to the Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference, September 14, 2012, New Orleans, LA.

• “Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations.” Presentation to the 2010 Massanetta Springs Bible Conference; August 3, 2010; Harrisonburg, VA.

• “From the Inside Out: Transforming Organizational Conflict by Coaching an Internal Reference Team.” Presentation to the Association for Conflict Resolution; October 9, 2009; Atlanta, Georgia.

• “Conflict as Opportunity: Transforming Organizational Conflict into Opportunity for Systemic Change.” Presentation to the Association for Conflict Resolution; September 27, 2008; Austin, Texas.

• “All About Assessment: The Ombuds Role and Organizational Transformation.” Presentation to the International Ombudsman Association; April 14, 2007; St. Louis, MO.

• “All About Assessment: Organizational Conflict Intervention as Opportunity for Systemic Change.” Presentation to the Association for Conflict Resolution; October 27, 2006; Philadelphia, PA.

• "Change and Conflict in Congregations: Research Results from 100 Religious Congregations in Dynamic Environments.” Presentation to the Association for Conflict Resolution; October 1, 2005; Minneapolis, MN.

• Member, The Organization Development Network.

(2019) Learning to love refugees as we love ourselves: A review of three books. International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching, 6, 53-55.

(2018, Winter). Pay attention to the body. WATESOL News.

(2017). Resilience: Bouncing Back through English. Bloomington, IN: Westbow Press.

(2016). Tension and harmony: Language teaching as a peacebuilding endeavor. In Social Justice in English Language Teaching, eds. C. Hastings & L. Jacobs. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Press.

(2015, March). Jane Arnold and Tim Murphey (Eds.). Meaningful Action: Earl Stevick’s influence on language teaching. Book review. International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching, 2.

(2014, October). Earl Stevick’s incarnational approach to teacher development: A personal reminiscence. CELEA News, 6.2.

(2014, December). Promoting peace by practicing forgiveness in the classroom. SPELT Journal 29.4.

(2014). Christian Wiman. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2013. Book review. 45.1 (Fall).

(2012, March). A role for English language teachers in trauma healing, TESOL Journal 3.1.

(2011, July). Caroline Coffin, Jim Donohue, and Sarah North. Exploring English Grammar: From Formal to Functional London: Routledge, 2009. Book review. ATEG Journal.

(2010). Serving trauma-affected learners in Pakistan. SPELT Journal, 25.4, pp. 2-12.

(2010). K. David Harrison When Languages Die: The extinction of languages and the erosion of human knowledge. Oxford University Press (2007) and S. Kramer, D.A. Miller, and J. Newberger (Directors and producers) The Linguists [Film]. Garrison, NY: Ironbound Films, Inc. (2008). Book reviews. Pakistan Journal of Language.

(2010) Lourdes Ortega Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Hodder Education (2009). Book review. Pakistan Journal of Language.

(2009, July). Hope for the English language teachers of Kosovo. Global Issues in Language Education, 72.

(2009). David I. Smith and Terry A. Osborn, Eds., Spirituality, Social Justice, and Language Learning. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2007. Pp. vi, 174. Book review. Christian Scholar’s Review, 38.3, pp. 397-99.

(2006, Fall). Reframing the argument for intensive English programs. IEP-IS Newsletter.

(2005, Winter). Agents of change working with the grain of the universe. SPELT Journal.

(2005, Spring). Inviting Experts to Class through Computer-Mediated Discussions. College Teaching.

(2003). Machiko Achiba Learning to request in a second language: A study of child interlanguage pragmatics. Buffalo, NY: Multilingual Matters, 2003. Pp. x, 222. Book review. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 26.2.

(2002, Winter)“Welcome to English Class!” English Language Teaching and Pakistani Hospitality, SPELT Journal.

(1999, Winter). Erica Manh, ed. Sharing Fruit: An Anthology of Asian and Australian Writing. Melbourne: Curriculum Corporation and the University of Melbourne, 1998. Book review. Education about Asia 4.3.

(1999). Ilse Depraetere. The Tense System in English Relative Clauses. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Book review. Journal of English Linguistics 7: 75-78.

(1999) Channel Effects: Two methods of letter writing in the classroom. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 42.8: 668-75.

(1998, June). “Using grammar innovatively in the Pakistani context.” SPELT Journal, 13 (2) 21-32.

(1994). How to teach English: a survival kit for teachers of English at the early stages. (co-author and editor). Lahore, Pakistan: Teacher Friendly Publications.

(1993) The challenge of the dream: Papers from a seminar on education and human growth. (editor). Lahore, Pakistan: Dar-ul-Hikmat Publications.

(1991, June). Some principles and practical suggestions for teaching writing. SPELT Newsletter, 6 (4).

(1987, October).The use of phonics in the ESL reading program for young children. SPELT Newsletter, 2(4).

Unpublished (or privately published) work:

(1998) Serving by responding. Script for a video modeling the use of peer response in writing. Co-directed by Deborah Menning and Mike Medley. Filmed and produced by Barry Lawrensen. Acted by Medley, Menning and Northwestern College students.

(1992).“Preliminary evaluation of the use of pictures in testing model sentences.” A study undertaken to guide the Missionary Language Board of Pakistan Examination Review Committee in revising its testing procedures.

(1989, revised 1991). We speak English. A collection of adapted and original pairwork exercises compiled for students at Dar-ul-Hikmat, Lahore, Pakistan.

(1989, July) Survey of Marwari and Dhatki dialects in southern Pakistan. 40 pages of text plus 44 pages of graphs, tables, and maps.

(1988, April). “Language study for missionary/fraternal workers assigned to Pakistan.” A critique of the Urdu course used mainly by missionaries coming to Pakistan, including extensive survey and discussion of literature relating to second language acquisition, 52 pages.

(2016, April 6). Developing empathy for trauma-affected learners. Presentation for the panel Teaching and Learning English in Difficult Circumstances at the 50th annual convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Baltimore, MD, April 5 to 8.

(2016, April 6). The premise behind English language teaching as a peacebuilding endeavor. Presentation for the panel Social Justice and English Language Teaching at the 50th annual convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Baltimore, MD, April 5 to 8.

(2015, March 23). The role of trauma-affected identity in second language acquisition. American Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference, Toronto, Canada, March 21-24.

(2014, March 27). Teacher renewal through research and reflective practice. Organizer and moderator for an academic session at the 49th annual convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Portland, OR, March 26-29.

(2014, March 26). Creating a caring community with class letters. Christians in English Language Teaching (CELT) conference, Multnomah University, March 26.

(2013, March 21). TESOL Peace Forum: Peacebuilding Skills for Teachers and Learners. Co-moderator for a panel of seven presenters at the 48th annual convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Dallas, TX March 20-23.

(2013, March 20). English Instruction for Trauma-affected Adult Learners around the World: Guidelines for Using a Curriculum with Convictions. Christian English Language Teachers (CELT) conference, Dallas Baptist University, March 20.

(2012, March 30). In Others’ Conflicts We Find Our Own. Poster session at the 47th annual convention for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Philadelphia, PA, March 28-31.

(2010, November 13). Meeting the Needs of Trauma-affected Learners. Washington Area Teachers of English as a Second Language (WATESOL) annual fall conference, University of Maryland, College Park.

(2010, October 29). Contextualize, Create Anticipation, and Ensure Production: Best Practices in Grammar Teaching. Presentation for English language instructors, sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2010, October 26). Ingredients of Effective Speaking and Writing Assignments. Presentation for faculty across the disciplines, sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2010, October 15-24). Teaching Trauma-Affected Learners: Exploring Unmapped Territory. Presented at the Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers International Conference, Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad.

(2010, October 15-24). Embracing all Intelligences in Grammar Teaching. Presented at the Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers International Conference, Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad.

(2010, October 25). Grammar Instruction from Planning to Production. Presented at the Post-Conference Institute of the Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers International Conference, Karachi.

(2009, March 28). Nurturing In-Service Language Teachers Affected by Trauma. Presented at the 44th annual convention for Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages, Denver, CO, March 26-29.

(2009, March 28). What Can Parachuted Experts Contribute? Presented at the 44th annual convention for Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages, Denver, CO, March 26-29.

(2008, May 6-14). Building a Writing Community. Two-hour workshops presented to 255 English teachers in five cities of Kosovo.

(2008, May 10-11). Writing Tasks for Learners with Diverse Talents. An eight-hour workshop presented to 29 English teachers in Prishtina, Kosovo.

(2007, October 11). Interpreting TOEFL Scores. Presented to the Graduate Council of James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2007, July 1-4). English language assessment: (1) The place of student assessment in English language program assessment; (2) Improving formal/summative assessments in English; (3) Using alternative assessments for formative purposes in English language teaching; and (4) Ethical dilemmas in English language assessment. Presented to school heads and assistant heads of the Presbyterian Education Board in Pakistan, Murree, Pakistan.

(2007, June 16). Grammar instruction and assessment in the context of written communication. An all-day workshop presented to English faculty from several campuses of Comsats University, Lahore Pakistan.

(2007, May 26). Teaching and assessing oral skills. Presented to K-12 English instructors and school heads at Education Centre Dar-ul-Hikmat, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2007, April-May). Language Testing and Teacher Training. Series of four 3-hour lessons presented to M.A. & Ph.D. in applied linguistics class at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2007, April 28). English program assessment for K-10 teachers. Presented at Education Centre Dar-ul-Hikmat, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2007, April 21). Grammar tools for writing instruction. Presented for the Forman Christian College Teachers Conference: Innovating Classroom Practices across Disciplines, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2007, April 21).Literature for learning language and intercultural skills. Presented for the Forman Christian College Teachers Conference: Innovating Classroom Practices across Disciplines Lahore, Pakistan.

(2007, March 8). Promoting academic honesty. Presented to the faculty of Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan. Presented a second time to all the MA in English students at F.C. College

(2006, October 12). Literacy achievement of generation 1.5 Spanish-English bilingual college students. Presented at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2006, May 4). LILAC: Face to face intercultural education. Presented at a faculty workshop at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA,

(2006, March 16) Critical incidents from literature. Presented at the 40th annual convention for Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages, Tampa, Florida.

(2005, October 22). Making the intensive English program indispensable. Presented at the Washington Area Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Fall Conference, Catholic University, Washington, DC,

(2005, May 18). Implications of the LMD reform proposal for the English program at the University of Nouakchott. Presented at a faculty development workshop for the Department of English at the University of Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania.

(2005, May 19). Integrative teaching: Synthesizing language, culture, and academic content. Presented at a faculty development workshop for the Department of English at the University of Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania.

(2005, May 20). Scaffolding for content-based teaching. Presented at a faculty development workshop for the Department of English at the University of Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania.

(2005, May 30). Increasing communication in the English as a second language classroom. Presented for teachers’ in-service workshops at the Nouakchott English Center and Oasis Bookstore, Nouakchott, Mauritania.

(2005, May 31). New trends in teaching English as a second language: Teaching intercultural communication. Presented for a teachers’ in-service workshop at the Nouakchott English Center, Nouakchott, Mauritania.

(2005, April 12). Pakistani English language teachers as potential peacebuilders. Presented at an EMU faculty/staff luncheon.

(2004, Oct. 1-12). Agents of change working with the grain of the universe. Keynote and plenary address at the 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers, October 1 – 10, 2004, Karachi, Multan, and Islamabad. Also given in modified form to the faculty and graduate students at Punjab University, Lahore, Oct. 12, sponsored by the US Embassy in Pakistan.

(2004, Oct. 1-12). Peacebuilding through teaching intercultural concepts and skills. Workshop at the the 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers, October 1 – 10, 2004, Karachi, Multan, Lahore, and Islamabad. Also given in modified form to teachers of Presbyterian Education Board Schools, Lahore, Oct. 4 and to the faculty and graduate students of the English Department at Government College University, Lahore, Oct. 12, sponsored by the US Embassy in Pakistan.

(2004, Oct. 11). Key Aspects of curriculum revision in the English department. Presentation to the Department of English Language and Literature at Forman Christian College, Lahore.

(2004, March 30). Workers unashamed? Standards for agencies using TESOL. Conference of Christians in English Language Teaching, Long Beach, CA.

(2003, March 28). Students face the experts. 37th annual convention for Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages, Baltimore, MD.

(2003, March 29). Global climate change and recruiting for IEPs. Panel organized for the 37th annual convention for Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages, Baltimore, MD.

(2002, April 18). Encountering American cultural values: adopting, judging, or understanding? Rockingham County Schools Sheltered English Program, Dayton Learning Center, Dayton, VA.

(2002, April 11). Consulting the experts through computer mediated discussions. 36th annual convention for Teachers of English to Speakers of Others Languages, Salt Lake City, UT.

(2001, October 5). Editing grammar in context. A workshop presented for the Rockingham County Schools ESL Teachers In- service Day, Peak View Elementary School.

(2001, March 27). Class participation and international students at EMU. Presented at an EMU faculty/staff luncheon.

(1999, March). Cultural diversity and methods of teaching EFL. Presented as part of the EFL-Interest Section panel at TESOL ’99, March 9-13 in New York City.

(1998, March). Interpreting relative clause tenses. Presented at TESOL ’98, March 17-21 in Seattle, WA.

(1997, October 3). Building community in writing classrooms. Presentation for the Tri-State Association of Christian Teachers International, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA.

(1997, April 18-19). Freshmen can do service writing, too! Presented with Northwestern College student Margo Buell at the Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, sponsored by Creighton University in Omaha, NE.

(1996, Sept. 26-27). A clash over culture war talk: College students’ comprehension of complex argumentative texts. Presented at the 23rd Plains Regional Conference of the International Reading Association, Bismarck, ND. Also presented at a Northwestern College faculty symposium in Nov. 1996.

(1996, Apr. 11-12). Building a community of readers and writers through class letter writing. Presented at the Iowa Reading Association Annual Conference, Des Moines, IA.

(1993, October 14-16). What’s the aim? Finding purpose in an aimless curriculum. Delivered at SPELT’s 9th Annual International Seminar, Lahore, Pakistan.

(1993, September 2). Debunking rote learning. Presented to the Lahore chapter of SPELT.

(1992 October 15-17). Assessing one method of individualized vocabulary instruction. Delivered at SPELT’s 8th Annual International Seminar, Karachi, Pakistan.

(1991, September). Activities for reading authentic texts. Presented to the Lahore chapter of SPELT.

(2020-2022). Member of judging panel for the "Teacher Stories" competition held by the Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT), Karachi, as part of their annual international conference.

(2015, April). Presented on the AP English language and composition exam in two high school classes at Harrisonburg High School and one at East Rockingham High School.

(2015, March & April). Panelist at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, VA for meetings of English language teachers and administrators in school districts in the Winchester, VA area.

(2014, November-December). Fulbright selection committee for English language teaching assistants in Morocco.

(2014, June) Outside reviewer of a doctoral dissertation in applied linguistics for Bahauddin Zakaria University, Multan, Pakistan

(2013-2016). Member and secretary of the board of the Christian English Language Educators Association (CELEA).

(2012-2017) Member of the editorial review board for The International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching.

(2011-12). Member of the editorial review board for the journal Language and Literature Review. University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2011-2014). Reader of proposals for the Teacher Education Interest Section for the TESOL annual convention.

(2010-2012). Member of the editorial review board for SPELT Journal.

(1999-2019). Reader of advanced placement (AP) exams for English language and composition, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

(2013, June). Outside reviewer of a doctoral dissertation in linguistics for the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2012, June 7). Presented an overview of second language acquisition to teachers of Harrisonburg City Schools enrolled in a short course on teaching English language learners.

(2010, November 3-5). Twenty-hour seminar in trauma awareness and resilience. Presentation sponsored by the Presbyterian Education Board in Lahore, Pakistan for the Struggle Hope Empowerment (SHE) project for women at risk.

(2010, November 2). Consultation with professional development trainers on program assessment, sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Forman Christian College, Lahore Pakistan.

(2010, October 25-November 2). Observations, feedback, and consultation with English language instructors at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan.

(2010, October 25-29). Ten-hour seminar in trauma awareness and resilience. Presentation sponsored by the Department of Psychology, Forman Christian College, Lahore Pakistan.

(2010, October-November). Professional development sessions for teachers of writing and grammar at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan.

In past years
(2009) Served on the selection board of Bahauddin Zakaria University in Multan, Pakistan as an external evaluator of applications for faculty positions.
(2007-2008). Consultant for Graduate Programs at James Madison University related to English language proficiency and cultural adaptation of international graduate students.
(2008, April-May). Reviewer of doctoral dissertation proposals in applied linguistics for the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
(2007, January – June). Visiting professor of English at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan. Supervised and taught English 101 (2 sections) and introduction to linguistics (MA part 2).
(2007, February – June). Supervisor of English 101 Grammar & Writing (20 sections, 7 instructors) at Forman Christian College. Performed more than 20 classroom observations and held individual conferences with instructors; assembled a handbook for teachers of English 101.
(2007, June 18-28). Designer, director and instructor for Intensive Oral English course for faculty of Forman Christian College.
(2007, May 12). Consultation and report on the Centre for English Language Communication of the National University of Computers and Emerging Sciences (FAST), Lahore, Pakistan.
(2005, May). Consultation and report on the proposed five-year objectives of the Teaching English as a Foreign Language Program of the United States Peace Corps in Mauritania
(2005, May). Consultation and report on the proposed national English curriculum for the first four years for the Inspectorate General of National Education, Department of English, in Mauritania.
(2005, May). Consultation and report to advise the Islamic Institute of Higher Study and Research in Mauritania on plans to expand its English language teaching program
(2005). Member of the editorial advisory panel of Pakistan Journal of Language
(2005). External examiner for M.A, MPhil and Ph.D dissertations/ theses Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
(2002-2009). E-list Manager for the Intensive English Program Interest Section of the national TESOL organization
(1999-2006). Reader of presentation proposals for the annual TESOL convention on behalf of the Intensive English Program Interest Section.

Church and Community Service
(2013-15 ) Minutes secretary for the Outreach Commission at Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA

(2012-13). Member of the Church Growth Working Group at Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg.

(2012-14). Member of a revived steering committee for Standing with Our Neighbors (SWON) to support four Kurdish men in applying for presidential pardons for the felonies of which they were convicted in 2006.

(2010-11). Volunteer tutor Harrisonburg High School intensive English program (3- 6 hours weekly)

(2010, April 28). Presentation to the advanced placement English language class at Harrisonburg High School on the synthesis question.

(2010, February-April). Eighteen hours of voluntary service in an eighth grade language arts class at Thomas Harrison Middle School, Harrisonburg, VA.

(2010, March-May). Teacher for adult education Bible class (Psalms of our Lives) at Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.

In past years
(2009, May 5-15). Fifteen hours of voluntary service in the Newcomer ESL class at Thomas Harrison Middle School, Harrisonburg, VA.
(2009, April 29). Presentation to the Advanced Placement English language class at Harrisonburg High School on the synthesis question.
(2009, April 25) Workshop leader for Bedford County Schools (VA) advanced placement English language exam debriefing (the synthesis question).
(August 2008-May 2009) Teacher for adult education Bible class (study of Exodus) at Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.
(2008, March 19). “A Million Cups of Tea: Views on Pakistan-US Relations after the Elections.” Presentation with Dr. Ehsan Ahmed to EMU faculty & students and community members.
(2007, August 26). Serving one another through love. Sermon at Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.
(2007, August 26). Christian-Muslim dialogue in Pakistan. Presentation for the Sunday Bunch at Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.
(2007, September 27). Presentation on current affairs in Pakistan to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Harrisonburg, VA.
(2006, September 10). Action-reaction: A cycle driven by fear and violence. Presentation about the Harrisonburg Kurdish cases to Sunday Supper Club, Warrenton, VA.
(2006). Steering group for Standing With Our Neighbors (SWON), founding member and chair of a community organization formed to respond to harassment of members of the local Kurdish community by US law enforcement agencies
(2003, March). Disarming Hearts & Minds. Presentations for the Downtown Prayer Luncheon, Harrisonburg and for Virginia Mennonite Retirement Home,
(2002, March 11). The challenge and promise of education in Pakistan. Presentation for the Harrisonburg (VA) Rotary Club,

(2008, May). English Language Specialist Grant for English teacher workshops from the US Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo

(2005, November 11-12). Lilly Fellows Grant to attend the Fifth Annual Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference, “Secularity and Globalization: What Comes after Modernity?” Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

(2005, May). English Language Specialist Grant for consultation in Mauritania, US Department of State

(2003-2004). Second Quarter) Quality Service Award, Eastern Mennonite University

(2004). Summer Research Grant from Eastern Mennonite University

(1996, 1998, May-June). Summer Research Grants from Northwestern College

Courses taught at EMU between 1999 and 2014:
Language Learning, Literacy and Culture (online version) (May-June 2011)
Language Learning, Literacy and Culture (Spring 2010)
Speech: Exploring Voice in Vocation (Spring 2010)
Preparation for College Writing linked with Global Past I (Fall 2009)
Advanced ESL (IEP)
Intermediate ESL (IEP)
English Bible (IEP)
Introduction to American Culture (IEP)
Intercultural Communication (IEP)
Bridge Writing/Transition to College Writing
College Writing
Introduction to Linguistics
Grammars of English
Psycholinguistics
Methods of Language Teaching
Practicum in TESOL
Language and Culture (MA in Education)
Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language (MA in Education)

(2016, May). Collaborator in organizing conversations on “Our Common Calling”

(2013-present). Chair of the Language & Literature Department and member of Undergraduate Council

(2013-present). Member of the Undergraduate Council Executive Committee

(2011-present ) Faculty liaison with visiting scholars from Chinese universities, a program run by Mennonite Partners in China in cooperation with EMU

(2014, 2015). Interviewer of candidates for teacher education program

(2014, Jan. 29). You ask why I teach this way? Let me tell you who I am. Flash seminar, Eastern Mennonite University

(2014, Jan. 28). Moderated Kairos Place faculty luncheon

(2013, Fall). Member of the search committee for the cross-cultural director and core director positions

(2012-4) Member of Faculty Senate Quality of Life Committee

(2011, September). Submitted a successful proposal to the Cross-Cultural Committee for a 6-week summer cross-cultural trip to Pakistan

(2010, March 18). Presentation on African-American Vernacular English in ENG 320 Beginnings of the African-American Tradition instructed by Andrew White.

(2009, Fall) Chair of the committee for revising the general education speech course

(2008-2010) Member, Cross Cultural Committee

In past years:
(2008, Fall) Language & Literature Department Search Committee for position in Spanish
(2008, Fall) Member, planning committee for International Education Week
(2008, Spring) Language & Literature Department Search Committee for position in English literature.
(2008, Spring) Language & Literature Department Search Committee for position in Spanish
(2007-08). Minutes recorder, EMU Faculty Assembly and University Forum
(2007, Fall). Member, planning committee for International Education Week
(2005-2008). Member, Campus Ministries Advisory Council
(2004-2006). Member, English Search Committee
(2004-2005). Member, Integrated Marketing Committee
(July 2002). Authored EMU: International is Part of our Identity, an essay about the internationalization of EMU’s campus that resulted in EMU being selected by NAFSA, the Association of International Educators featured in a national report on international education
(2003-04). Chair, Research Review Board
(2000-2003). Member of the Research Review Board
(1999). Member, General Education Subcommittee on Technology & Writing Across the Curriculum

Creating Joy at Work Through Fostering an Ethical Culture - Learning lab related to helping leaders identify their key ethical values and how to communicate those values to followers. Mennonite Health Assembly, March 1, 2019. Wichita Kansas.

Anything that Can Go Wrong…..: Podium presentation at Mennonite Health Assembly, Pittsburg PA March 9, 2018. Conference theme of resilience, this presentation told the story and highlights of resilience based on a work situation at EMU.

Standing on Holy Ground: The Spirituality of Care July 14, 2017. Presentation at Christian Connections for International Health. Baltimore, MD.

The Impact of the Values Based Leadership Project on MHS-affiliated Executive’s Leadership Styles and Organizational Success Qualitative research study in process examining leadership styles and life experiences of VBLP participants. Funded by Mennonite Health Services.

The Experience of African Students Studying Nursing in the United States in Relation to Their Use of Critical Thinking Report of PhD dissertation research at Pi Mu STTI Scholarship Conference, Harrisonburg, VA (April 2013) and to Epsilon Zeta STTI chapter in Fairfax, VA (April 2014).

Ethical Issues for Nurse Managers March 1, 2012. Presented at Mennonite Health Assembly, Louisville, KY. As part of Nurse Manager track at conference.

*Webquests as a Means for Developing Health
Care Policy Decisions* June 1, 2009. Presented at the 17th annual Washington Health Policy Institute, sponsored by George Mason University.

Ethical Perspectives Related to Providing Healthcare to Undocumented Immigrants March 2009. Presented at Mennonite Health Assembly, Cleveland, OH.

Investigating Perceptions of Needs and Assets Relative to Healthcare Access in Prince William County. February 2008 to Northern Virginia Healthcare Safety Net, Fairfax VA & April 2008 to Pi Mu Scholarship Conference, Harrisonburg, VA

Cultural ways of knowing influencing research and health care in the African Experience April 2006. Presentation at Pi MU, Sigma Theta Tau scholarship conference. Harrisonburg, VA

Induction Counselor & Treasurer For Pi Mu honor society, representing EMU. Fall 2013 to present.

Member, Mennonite Health Assembly Planning Committee March 2008 to 2014. Served as Moderator to the MHA conference in March 2010 in Norfolk, VA.

Chairperson, Strategic Planning Committee, Lindale Mennonite Church. Led the development of new vision statements and strategic plan as well as annual evaluation 2004 to 2016.

Contact person for Augusta Advocacy Chapter of Virginia Nurses Association Sept 2010 to 2014.

Research Grant from Pi Mu chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International April 2014. To help fund the MHS sponsored research study entitled The Impact of the Values Based Leadership Project on MHS-affiliated Executive’s Leadership Styles and Organizational Success.

Research Grant from Epsilon Zeta chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International May 2011. To research the experience of African students using critical thinking while studying nursing in the U.S.

Founders Award for Scholarship in Evidence-Based Practice. April 2008. Awarded by Pi Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, Harrisonburg, VA for research related to the uninsured in Prince William County VA.

Epsilon Zeta Chapter Inducted into the George Mason University chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International nursing honor society.

VA Doctoral Loan Repayment Program. May 2007. Received $25,000 loan/scholarship for funding PhD course work through State Council for Higher Education in Virginia for use during academic year 2007-2008 at George Mason University.

*Advanced Cardiac Life Support through the American Heart Association. January 2016

Virginia Nurses Association Contact person for Augusta Advocacy Chapter of VNA

Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship

Sigma Theta Tau International Inducted April 2008

NURS 620 – Quality, Risk and Safety In the MSN program. Spring 2014

Team Leader for MSN CCNE Accreditation Visit – 2016-2017

Faculty Status Committee – Member Fall 2016 to 2022.

DNP Design & Implementation Team – Member. April 2015 to present.

Nursing Structure Task Force – Served as leader in academic year 2015-2016.

Faculty Sustainability Task Force Member academic year 2014-2015.

Graduate Leadership Task Force Member Fall 2012 to June 2014.

Cross Cultural Committee Member Fall 2012 to 2015.

Tuesday Luncheon March 2013 The Experience of African Students Studying Nursing in the United States in Relation to Their Use of Critical Thinking Report of PhD dissertation research.

Cross Cultural to Zambia May 2012. Co-led with Dr. Wanda Thuma McDermond from Messiah College in Pennsylvania. Cross-cultural was a joint effort between EMU and Messiah.

Writing Committee Member of EMU committee. Fall 2011 to present.

Hurricane Katrina relief. Led group of Nursing students to Mississippi, September 2005, for 2 weeks to work with the American Red Cross in relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.

Crosscultural.Co-led cross cultural group to Kenya and Zimbabwe, Summer 2003 with Krista Martin.

Magpie’s Blanket: A novel. University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Women Writing the West WILLA Literary Award Finalist, historical fiction category, 2017.

Editor, with Diane Zimmerman Umble and Steven D. Reschley, Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

*_Run Dirk, Run: Wrestling with the Willems Story_ in 606: Politics, culture, family and more. From a (mostly) Mennonite perspective. https://sixoh6.com/2018/03/26/run-dirk-run-wrestling-with-the-willems-story/ (March 2018)

“Step-Mothering on the Mennonite Mission Field: The Letters of Olga Petter Schroeder and Bertha Kinsinger Petter.” vol. 68, 2014. Mennonite Life. online.

Book Review of Mothering Mennonite. Rachel Epp Buller and Kerry Fast, eds. (Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2013). vol. 68, 2014. Mennonite Life. online.

“Moneneheo and Naheverien: Cheyenne and Mennonite Sewing Circles, Convergences and Conflicts, 1890-1970.” 31:1 Great Plains Quarterly. (Winter 2011): 3-22.

Book Review of Mennonite Women in Canada: A History. By Marlene Epp. Mennonite Quartely Review. LXXXIV:1 (January 2010).

“The Selected Ones: Uncovering the Peaceful Women’s History of the Southern Cheyenne.” Mennonite Life 61:3 (Sept. 2006).

Book Review of Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old Order River Brethren. By Margaret Reynolds. (December 2003) Journal of American History, pp. 1141-2.

Book Review of Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s. By Royden Loewen. (Winter 2003). Great Plains Quarterly. pp. 56-7.

“You’ve Come A Long Way Baby or Was the Anger Worth It: Women in Leadership in the Mennonite Church.” (Summer 2003) MCC Women’s Concerns Report.

“Schism: Where Outside Women’s Work and Insider Dress Collided in an Amish Mennonite Church, “in Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

“Sacred Farming” versus “Working Out”: The Negotiated Lives of Conservative Mennonite Farm Women” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 2002.

With Steven D. Reschly, “A Women’s History for Anabaptist Traditions: A Framework of Possibilities, Possibly Changing the Framework.” vol. 18 Journal of Mennonite Studies, 2002, pp. 29-46.

“The Diverse Histories of Mennonite Women” Mennonite Yearbook (Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1995).

With Marc A. Olshan, “Amish Women and the Feminist Conundrum” in War Against Progress: The Amish Struggle with Modernity, Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan, eds. (University Press of New England, 1994).

“The North Newton Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: Educating for Peace,” Mennonite Life, vol. 40, December, 1985.

• The Circle and the Cross: Oral History and the Peace Theologies of the Southern Cheyenne. Mennonite/s Writing VII: Movement, Transformation, Place. Fresno Pacific University, March 2015.

• Arguing into the Wind: Mennonite Missionary Bertha Kinsinger Petter’s Lifelong Advocacy for Cheyenne Women, 1896-1967. Histories on the Edge, The 16th Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians. University of Toronto, Canada. May 2014.

• Step-Mothering on the Mennonite Mission Field: The Letters of Olga Petter Schroeder and Bertha Kinsinger Petter. at Mothering Mennonite, Bethel College, October 2013.

• Invited paper, Fabricating Culture: Changes in Twentieth Century Amish Women’s Work and Identity. The Textile Museum, Washington, DC. January 2009.

• Invited paper, A Women’s History of the Cheyenne Mennonite Mission. Cheyenne, Arapaho, Mennonite: Journey from Darlington. Clinton, Okla. April, 2006.

• Invited paper, Center Women: A Theory of Mennonite Women’s Leadership. Philadelphia Stories: Kingdom Building in the City, Philadelphia, PA. April 2003

• With Steven D. Reschly, The Production and Consumption of Discourse Systems: Amish Women’s History in Dialogue with American Women’s Historians. Crossroads Conference, Finland, June 28, 1998.

• The Church’s One Foundation’: History, Identity and Faith Formation Among Mennonite Historians. Invited paper presented at Mennonites and Jews: Religious Minorities and the Search for Identity in America. April 1997, University of Maryland at College Park.

• Invited comment. Community, Identity, and State Building: Mennonite and Amish Examples, Social Science History Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, October 12, 1996.

• Keynote address with Steven D. Reschly, A Women’s History for Anabaptist Traditions: A Framework of Possibilities, Possibly Changing the Framework at The Quiet in the Land? Women of Anabaptist Traditions in Historical Perspective.” Millersville University, Millersville, PA, June 8-11, 1995.

• The Cape Dress Controversy: Amish Mennonite Women during the Depression presented at Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 30-April 2, 1995.

• “Led by the Lord”: Reconstructing Mennonite Women’s Work Experiences During the Farm Crisis. The Fifth Conference on Rural/Farm Women in Historical Perspective, Washington, DC, December 1-4, 1994.

• Keynote address, Gender Theory and Mennonite Congregational History . The Experience of Mennonite Women, Harleysville, PA, October 20-22, 1994.

• Invited response to New Directions for Anabaptist Feminism Women Doing Theology, Bluffton College, Bluffton, OH, June 23-25, 1994.

• Substantial Subsistence: Religious Ideology and Economic Circumstance in the Work Lives of Amish Mennonite Women presented at Works in Progress, Washington/Chesapeake Area Women’s Historians, American University, Washington, DC, March 12, 1994.

• Feminist Theory and Amish Women’s History presented at Amish Society, 1693-1993, Celebrating Three Hundred Years of Persistence and Change, The Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, July 22-25, 1993.

• Challenging Separate Spheres Ideology: A Mennonite Case Study presented at Re-weaving Women’s Colors: Scholarship, Curriculum, and our Lives, National Women’s Studies Conference, Washington, DC, June 16-20, 1993.

• Transforming Tradition: Some Changes in Mennonite Women’s Work, 1930-1990 . Presented at Celebrating Feminist Research Across the Disciplines, Women’s Studies Program Annual Research Forum, University of Maryland at College Park, February 5, 1993.

• Planning Committee and Moderator, “Fleeing War, Waging Peace: An Iraqi woman shares her Struggle.” JNN event. November 7, 2012.

• Board Member, Hyattsville Preservation Association, 2011-12. Lead Writer for Historic Hyattsville: A Walking Tour and numerous articles in the Hyattsville Life and Times on topics of local historical significance.

• President, Hyattsville Preservation Association, 2009-2011

• Consultant, The Faith & Politics Institute, Congressional Pilgrimage to Commemorate the 140th Anniversary of the Washita Massacre.

Member of the Organization of American Historians, The Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians, The Washington, DC Historical Society.

• Leader, Radical Europe: Reformation Austria, Switzerland and German. Six week Summer cross-cultural, 2017.

• Co-Chair, Gender Studies Minor Committee, EMU, current.

• Pre-Law Minor Committee, EMU, current.

• Chair, Washington Community Scholars’ Center Advisory Council, current.

• Radical Europe: Reformation Switzerland and Renaissance Italy. EMU Semester Cross-Cultural, Fall 2004 & Fall 2006.