Curriculum Vitae: Perry Bush, Professor of History, Bluffton University
Department of History 126 Sunset Dr.
Bluffton University Bluffton, OH 45817
1 University Dr.
Bluffton, OH 45817
(419) 358-3278
Bushp@bluffton.edu
Education:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ph.D. (History) August, 1990; M.A. (History) May, 1987
Dissertation Title: "Drawing the Line: American Mennonites, the State, and Social Change, 1935-1973"
University of California, Berkeley, California B.A. (Political Science) June, 1981 with highest honors
Honors, Awards and Grants:
Awarded the Charles DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History from the Peace History Society in 2003-2004 (for "The Political Education of Vietnam Christian Service, 1954-1975," Peace and Change, 27:2 {April, 2002}: 198-224).
Participant, the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College, 2000-2002
Book Dancing with the Kobzar was accepted for inclusion into the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History book series, Fall 1999
Book Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties was nominated for the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society for Church History and the Awards in Excellence in the Study of Religion, in the category of First Book in the History of Religions, by the American Academy of Religion, Fall, 1999.
Awarded the C. Henry Smith Peace Lectureship, 1997-1998
Recipient, Research Grants, Bluffton College Study Center, 1995, 1997 and 2001
Chosen as a Young Scholar in American Religion at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, 1994 (had to decline participation in the larger program).
Awarded the Dean Shirley Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Phillips University, 1992-1993
Recipient, Research Grants, from Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities and the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton, Illinois, 1991
Books:
Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community took on Big Oil and Won, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012
Dancing with the Kobzar: Bluffton College and Mennonite Higher Education, Telford, Pennsylvania: Pandora Press US, 2000.
Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Articles in refereed journals:
“A ‘Creative Tension’: Mennonite Central Committee, Christian Peacemaker Teams, and the Justice Imperative, 1984-2006,” in Alain Epp Weaver, ed., A Table of Sharing: Mennonite Central Committee and the Expanding Networks of Mennonite Identity (Telford, Pa.: Cascadia Press, 2010).
“’If God were a Capitalist, the Mennonites would be his Favorite People’”: "Economics, Mennonites, and Reflections on the Recent Literature,” Journal of Mennonite Studies, 2005
“Violence, Nonviolence, and the Search for Answers in History,” in J .Denny Weaver and Gerald Biesecker-Mast, eds., Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), 77-88.
"Bluffton College and Progressive Anabaptism, 1899-1999," in James Hodges and James O'Donnell, eds., Cradles of Conscience: Ohio's Independent Colleges and Universities, Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003), 52-63.
"What Would History Look Like if 'Peace and Justice' Really Mattered?" Fides Et Historia, XXXIV: 1 (Winter/Spring, 2002): 49-56.
"The Political Education of Vietnam Christian Service, 1954-1975," Peace and Change, 27:2 (April, 2002): 198-224.
"Anabaptist Visions at the Library of Congress (and Other Tales from the Edge of Evangelicalism)" in David Weaver-Zercher, ed., Minding the Church: Scholarship in the Anabaptist Tradition (Telford, PA: Pandora Press, US, 2002), 72-86.
"Economic Justice and the Evangelical Historian," Fides et Historia XXXIII: 1 (Winter/Spring, 2001): 11-27.
"'United Progressive Mennonites': Bluffton College and Mennonite Higher Education, 1913-1945," Mennonite Quarterly Review LXXIIV (July, 2000): 357-380.
"The Solidification of Nonresistance: Bluffton and World War, 1917-1945," Mennonite Life 55:1 (March, 2000): 1-10.
"Vietnam and the Burden of Mennonite History," Conrad Grebel Review, 17:2 (Spring, 1999): 5-27.
"The Flexibility of the Center: Mennonite Church Conflict in the 1960s," Mennonite Quarterly Review, LXXII (April, 1998): 189-206.
"Anabaptism Born Again: Mennonites, New Evangelicals, and the Search for a Usable Past, 1950-1980," Fides et Historia XXV (Winter-Spring, 1993): 26-47.
"Military Service, Religious Faith, and Acculturation: Mennonite G.I.'s and their Church, 1941- 1945," Mennonite Quarterly Review LXVII (July, 1993): 261-282.
"'We have Learned to Question Government': Mennonite Dissent from Church-State Compromise, 1940-1945," Mennonite Life 45 (June, 1990): 13-17.
"A Neighborhood, a Hollow, and the Bloomfield Bridge: the Relationship between Community and Infrastructure," Pittsburgh History, 74 (Winter, 1991): 160-172.
I’ve published an additional six articles in the popular press; a full list is available upon request:
Reviews:
Twenty-one reviews published in various journals such as The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Peace and Change, The Journal of Social History, Church History and Fides et Historia. (A full list is available upon quest)
Papers delivered:
Eighteen papers delivered at various professional and academic conferences (a full list is available upon request)
Courses taught: (last ten years only):
Spring, 2012
