About JEC
Jonathan Edwards Center Staff
Directors
Harry S. Stout is Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center. He is the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity at Yale University with appointments in the Divinity School and in the departments of Religious Studies, History, and American Studies. He has been the General Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards since 1991. Professor Stout is the author of The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England and The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism, both of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the co-editor of the award-winning Dictionary of Christianity in America, as well as New Directions in American Religious History and A Jonathan Edwards Reader. Prof. Stout is the co-editor of volume 22 in The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742, containing sermons from the Great Awakening. His forthcoming book is entitled Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War.
Kenneth P. Minkema is the Executive Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center. He is also the Executive Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and Assistant Adjunct Professor in American Religious History at Yale University, and the Executive Secretary of the American Society of Church History. He edited The Works of Jonathan Edwards, volume 14, Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729, and is the co-editor of A Jonathan Edwards Reader and The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, as well as The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694, dealing with the Salem Witchcraft crisis. Besides publishing numerous articles on Edwards and related topics in professional journals, Dr. Minkema is co-editing a volume of colonial Massachusetts church records and is part of a team that is editing Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Caleb J.D. Maskell is the Associate Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center and Associate Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards. After completing his A.B. with honors at the University of Chicago, he earned an M.Div. summa cum laude from Yale Divinity School, where he specialized in American Religious History. Maskell will begin a PhD in Religion at Princeton University in the Autumn. With Harry Stout and Ken Minkema, he is the co-editor of a collection entitled Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth.
Fellows
Anna Svetlikova is a PhD candidate at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic where she also received her Master's in English & American Studies and Dutch. She is currently working at the JEC as a visiting Fulbright researcher. Her research seeks to approach Edwards from the perspective of literary history and theory.
Michael McClenahan is a Fellow of the Jonathan Edwards Center. He has degrees in Jurisprudence (St. John's College) and Theology (Exeter College) from the University of Oxford and was formerly Senior Scholar in Theology at Exeter College. After completing a Master's degree in Ecclesiastical History he wrote a doctoral thesis on the doctrine of justification in the theology of Jonathan Edwards. His thesis attempts to provide a detailed historical and theological interpretation of Edwards' 1738 discourse on justification. Michael was a doctoral Research Fellow at Yale University Divinity School and currently works in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
Staff
Matt Croasmun graduated with distinction in his major (music) from Yale College in 2001 and summa cum laude from the Yale Divinity School in 2006, with an M.A.R. in Bible. His main scholarly interests are in Pauline christology and hermeneutics, though, as a result of his work at the Institute for Sacred Music at the Divinity School, he published an article on the theological motivations for the use of contemporary music in the Vineyard movement in the 1970s (Kirche und Musik, 2005) and presented a paper on biblical interpretation in an African-initiated church movement in Western Kenya (spring 2006). Matt has been working in web software development, including development of web-based text annotation software, at the Yale Center for Language Study before recently joining the JEC staff to help with development of the Works Online.
Bryan McCarthy is a second year MDiv student at Yale Divinity School, hoping to go on to a PhD in Theology. He did his undergraduate work in Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg and spent some time afterwards in missionary training. His research interests include the nature of Christian transformation, the presence and the absence of the miraculous in Christian ministry, and personal eschatology. Bryan is a transcriber for the Jonathan Edwards Center, working on unpublished Edwards' texts in the Beinecke Library.
Kyle Orr graduated from Yale College in 2006, having studied Linguistics and Philosophy. His interests include Biblical language, Puritan Theology, and contemporary philosophy of language. Kyle assists the center in the work of transcription and in increasing the usability of the online archive.
Allen Yeh was born in Guam ("where America's day begins") but grew up in the Los Angeles area. With a passion for traveling, different cultures, and education, this has taken him to New England: first to Yale for his undergraduate degree in history, then Gordon-Conwell Seminary for his M.Div. with a focus on homiletics. He continued moving eastward to the U.K., completing an M.Th. in theology & communications at Edinburgh, and now he is finishing his D.Phil. at Oxford in ecclesiastical history. His particular interests are in Latin America and Asia, homiletics, missiology, and history. So basically Allen is a Chinese guy from the U.S. studying Latin America in England (he's trying to find a way to fit in Africa in there somehow, to hit all five continents). His family, still in L.A., wants him to come home but he tells them he will keep moving East until he eventually gets back to California.
