Elizabethtown

Jean-Paul Benowitz is the Director of Public Heritage Studies in theSchool of Arts and Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown,Pennsylvania, where he has served on the faculty since 1993teaching in the Departments of History and Religious Studies. Heholds a Bachelor of Science in History from Eastern Mennonite Universityand a Master of Arts in History from Millersville Universityof Pennsylvania. He completed doctoral studies at Temple University,where his dissertation, James Wadsworth Symington: The Best Man,examined the political career of United States Congressman JamesWadsworth Symington in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations.His scholarly work spans three interconnected fields: the history ofthe Church of the Brethren and the Anabaptist-Pietist tradition; thepolitical history of the United States in the twentieth century, withparticular emphasis on the civil rights movement and presidential262 - BIBLIOGRAPHYpolitics; and the theory and practice of place-based and communityengagedlearning in higher education. He served as Scholar in Residenceat the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies atElizabethtown College, during which time he produced several scholarlyworks on Pennsylvania Dutch culture and the Historic PeaceChurches of the mid-Atlantic region.