Rod Janzen, Ed.D.

• Ed.D., Social Sciences, University of Southern California, 1992
• M.A., History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977
• Studies in History and Literature, Oxford University, 1973-1974
• B.A., History, Fresno Pacific College, 1975

I teach history from a Christian perspective that references the most recent research in the field. I hope that students will gain an understanding of the various ways that history may be viewed based on different ideological stances. My teaching is student-centered and discussion-oriented.

• "William Saroyan on Ethnicity," Journal of American Ethnic History, to be published Spring 2014
• "Plain Christians in California's San Joaquin Valley," Pacific Historical Review, to be published December 2013
• "The Hutterites: Physical and Spiritual Health Care," book chapter in The Spiritual Care Edition of the Physicians Desk Reference, edited by Steven Jeffers, to be published by Radcliffe Publishers, 2013
• "The Hutterites in 2013," Agricultural History Association, Banff, Alberta, June 2013
• “Communal Christianity,” “The Hutterites in North America” and "The Hutterites Face the Future," Durnbaugh Lecture Series, Young Center for the Study of Anabaptism and Pietism, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, April, 2012