- rajanzen@fresno.edu
- 559-453-2210
- Office: McDonald Hall, Room 251
Education
- 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.
Publications & Presentations
- "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
- "Book Reviews" Fresno Pacific University (2010)
- The Hutterites in North America, with Max Stanton, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
- Paul Tschetter: The Story of a Hutterite Immigrant Leader, Pioneer, and Pastor, published by Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2009
- "Back to the city: Mennonite Community Church, Fresno, California, 1954-2004" California Historical Mennonite Society, 2006 (Part 1) (Part 2)
- "The Scholarship of Discovery," in Pacific Journal, 2006
- "What is Scholarship?" Fresno Pacific University, 2006
- "The Hutterites and the Bruderhof: the relationship between an old order religious society and a twentieth-century communal group" Mennonite Quarterly Review (2005)
- "Back to the city: Mennonite Community Church, Fresno, California, 1954-2005" Mennonite Community Church (2004)
- "The rise and fall of Synanon: a California utopia" John Hopkins University Press (2001)
- "Three approaches to curriculum design: A time for every purpose under Heaven" Fresno Pacific Graduate School (1999)
- "The Prairie People: Forgotten Anabaptists" University Press of New Egland (1999)
Rod Janzen, Ed.D.
Professor of History
- rajanzen@fresno.edu
- 559-453-2210
- Office: McDonald Hall, Room 251