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Donald B. Kraybill is a prolific author, lecturer, and educator on Anabaptist Faiths and Living . Kraybill is widely recognized for his studies on Anabaptist groups, and is the foremost expert on the Old Order Amish . Since 2003. Kraybill has been currently Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania . He previously served as chairman of the Sociology and Social Work Department at E-town from 1979 to 1985 and as director of the Young Center from 1989 to 1996. Elizabethtown College, founded in 1899 by the Church Of The Brethern , is a liberal-arts college with 43 major programs of study, and more than 60 minors. {Link without Title} CURRENT PROJECTS In October 2005, Young Center was awarded a $100,000 grant from the at Goshen College in Indiana , and Karen Johnson-Weiner, professor of Anthropology at the State University Of New York at Potsdam. A national panel of seven scholars will advise the research team throughout the project. The NEH grant will enable the researchers to investigate the Amish experience at the national level, giving attention to geographic expansion, the growth of diversity, changing conceptions of identity and evolving patterns of interaction with the larger society. The team will also explore how the Amish have contributed to shaping the identity of a nation that made exceptions in the areas of education, Social Security and child labor for a religious minority living on its cultural margins. EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR Kraybill served as . Kraybill is the author or editor of more than 18 books and dozens of professional articles. His books have been translated into six different languages and his research on Anabaptist groups has been featured in magazines, newspapers, and on radio and television programs across the United States and in many foreign countries. As one might expect, Kraybill writes almost exclusively on the Anabaptists faiths. As one might not expect, Kraybill writes not just academic books - largely published by Johns Hopkins University Press - but popular books sold in gift shops to tourists, interested in learning more about the plain sects. He is one of two experts - the other being Dr. D. Holmes Morton - frequently quoted by reporters to give background to news stories involving the Amish. DEGREES
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