Donald B Kraybill was born on 1945 and is an American author, lecturer, and educator on Anabaptist faiths and culture.
20 Facts About Donald Kraybill
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Donald Kraybill has researched and written extensively on Anabaptist culture.
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Donald Kraybill is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Elizabethtown College and Senior Fellow Emeritus at Elizabethtown's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.
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Donald Kraybill was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, in 1945 to a Mennonite family and grew up on dairy farms in Mount Joy, Lampeter and Morgantown.
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Donald Kraybill's surname Kraybill is a form of the name Graybill which is a typical Mennonite and Amish name, first recorded in America in 1728.
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Donald Kraybill graduated from Lancaster Mennonite High School in 1963.
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Donald Kraybill served for five years as an associate pastor in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at the Willow Street Mennonite Church and served four years as the associate director of Mennonite Voluntary Service as a conscientious objector.
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Donald Kraybill started teaching sociology at Elizabethtown College in 1971.
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Donald Kraybill was provost of Messiah College from 1996 to 2002 before returning to Elizabethtown in 2003.
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Donald Kraybill is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Elizabethtown College and Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.
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Donald Kraybill is widely recognized for his studies and expertise on Anabaptist groups and in particular the Amish.
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Donald Kraybill retired in 2015 and planned to continue his research in his retirement.
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Donald Kraybill was succeeded as director of the Young Center after his retirement by Nolt.
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Donald Kraybill has authored or edited nearly 30 books on various aspects of the lives of Plain sects.
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Donald Kraybill writes almost exclusively on the groups within the Anabaptist faith such as the Mennonites, Amish, and Bruderhof.
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Donald Kraybill is one of two experts frequently quoted by reporters to give background to news stories involving the Amish.
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Donald Kraybill served as a consultant for the PBS show The American Experience series The Amish.
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Donald Kraybill assisted federal prosecutors in understanding Amish beliefs and practices and served as an expert witness at the federal trial in 2012.
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Donald Kraybill wrote a book about the attacks, investigation, trial, and aftermath: Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers.
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Donald Kraybill was selected to research and write a centennial history of Eastern Mennonite University, his alma mater, that was published in 2017.