Curriculum Vitae
BENJAMIN J. WETZEL
Education: Grove City College, Grove City, PA Grove City College has been listed by Barron’s
B.A. in History, May 2009
as one of the 65 Most Competitive Colleges and
Minor: English
Universities in the nation, listed alphabetically between
Georgetown and Harvard. http://www.gcc.edu
Baylor University, Waco, TX
M.A. in History, May 2011
Advisor: Barry Hankins
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Ph.D. in History, will graduate May 2016
Advisor: Mark Noll
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
 “Onward Christian Soldiers: Lyman Abbott’s Justification of the Spanish-American
War.” Journal of Church and State 54:3 (Summer 2012): 406-25.
Book Chapters
 “Fundamentalists, Liberals, and a Mennonite Third Way: Reexamining the Career of
Bishop Daniel Kauffman.” 104-28. In The Activist Impulse: Exploring the Intersection of
Evangelicalism and Anabaptism. Edited by Jared S. Burkholder and David C. Cramer.
Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2012.
Other Publications
 ‘This Sacred Warfare’: Northern Congregationalists Interpret the Civil War.” Bulletin of
the Congregational Library 8:2 (Fall 2011): 2-10.
 s.v. “Josiah Strong.” In Encyclopedia of Religion and American Politics. Edited by Philip
DiMare. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, forthcoming.
 s.v. “Old Order Amish Church.” In Baker Handbook of Denominations and Ministries.
Edited by George Thomas Kurian. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, forthcoming.
 “A ‘Third Way’?: The Role of Daniel Kauffman in Mennonite Fundamentalism.”
Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 32 (January 2009): 12-17.
Fellowships and Grants
 September 2012, Graduate School Notebaert Professional Development Grant, University
of Notre Dame ($1,088)
 September 2012, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame,
conference presentation grant ($400) [declined]
 September 2012, Union of Graduate Historians, University of Notre Dame, conference
presentation grant ($200) [declined]
 2009-2010, Guittard Fellowship, Baylor University History Department
Scholarly Presentations and Conference Participation
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January 2013, American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA: “A TwentiethCentury Crusade: Lyman Abbott, Christian Nationalism, and World War I.” [Sponsored
by the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era]
April 2010, Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Conference, Houston, TX:
“Occom vs. Occom: English Christianity and Indian Identity in the Late EighteenthCentury.”
October 2009, Mid-America Conference on History, University of Oklahoma, Norman,
OK: “The Social Gospel and Racial Reform, 1865-1918.”
March 2009, Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV: “Racial Reform in the Thought of Lyman Abbott, Washington
Gladden, and Josiah Strong.” Awarded “Best Paper” Prize for Panel 1.
September 2008, Undergraduate Forum of the Conference on Faith and History, Bluffton
University, Bluffton, OH: “‘Virtual Umpire’: Woodrow Wilson, Christianity, and
Mexican Politics, 1913-1914.”
June 2008, Summer Seminar Participant at the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, IN.
March 2008, Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Slippery Rock University, Slippery
Rock, PA: “‘Virtual Umpire’: Woodrow Wilson, Christianity, and Mexican Politics,
1913-1914.” Awarded “Best Paper” Prize for Panel I.
Teaching Experience
 January 2013-May 2013, Teaching Assistant for “History of Modern Africa” (taught by
Paul Ocobock, University of Notre Dame)
 August 2012-December 2012, Teaching Assistant for “U.S. History to 1877: The Growth
of the American Nation” (taught by James Turner, University of Notre Dame)
 September 2010-December 2010, Tutor to Chinese Students taking HIST 1307 (World
History II) (taught by Luis Morera, Baylor University)
 June 2010-August 2010, Tutor to Athletes, Baylor University Student-Athlete Services
Other Academic Work Experience
 January 2011-May 2011, Graduate Assistant for Dr. James SoRelle, Professor of History,
Baylor University
 June 2010-August 2010, Assistant to the Executive Secretary, American Society of
Church History
 January 2010-May 2010, Graduate Assistant for Dr. Jeffrey Hamilton, Professor of
History, Baylor University, and Dr. Barry Hankins, Professor of History, Baylor
University
 August 2009-December 2009, Graduate Assistant for Dr. David Bebbington, Visiting
Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University
 May 2008-August 2008, Intern, Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society (Lancaster, PA)
 February 2006-May 2009, Research Assistant for Dr. Paul C. Kemeny, Professor of
Religion and Humanities, Grove City College.
Professional Memberships
 2012-Present, Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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2011-Present, American Historical Association
2011-Present, Conference on Faith and History
2010-Present, American Society of Church History
2007-Present, Phi Alpha Theta (Chapter Vice-President, 2008-2009)