Director, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown, PA, United States
Steven M. Nolt is director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. HIs Amish-related research has taken him into dozens of settlements across the United States and in Ontario, and has focused on community formation and history, economic and social change, and the role of technology in Amish life. Nolt is the author or coauthor of sixteen books on Amish, Mennonite, and Pennsylvania German history and contemporary life. His titles include The Amish: A Concise Introduction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and with Donald Kraybill and Karen Johnson-Weiner, The Amish (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), the definitive study of Amish society and cultural diversity. He also serves as the series editor for Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and as coeditor of the Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities, published by Ohio State University Libraries.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
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