Duane Stoltzfus

Working for The Record as a student at Goshen College confirmed that I wanted to be a journalist. After graduation I started my career with The Brooklyn Paper and finished at The New York Times, with a couple of New Jersey papers in between. Then a position opened at Goshen College, and I was able to return to The Record, this time as a faculty adviser. I’ve been a professor in the Communication Department for 25 years.

My research interests focus on conscientious objectors and civil liberties. My current book project tells the story of Rosika Schwimmer and other pacifists who found their pathway to citizenship blocked when they would not pledge to take up arms for the nation.

Education

• M.A., Latin American Studies, New York University, 1988;
• Ph.D., Communication, Rutgers University, 2001

• Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)
• Freedom from Advertising: E.W. Scripps’s Chicago Experiment (University of Illinois Press, 2007)
• book review of Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars (The Journal of American History, June 2021)
• “When an American Pacifist Became an Alien in Her Own Homeland” (Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research, March 2021)
• “‘Nurse Without a Country’: When a Mennonite Who Refused to Bear Arms Prevailed in Her Bid for Citizenship” (Mennonite Quarterly Review, July 2019)

• C. Henry Smith Peace Lectureship, 2022-2023 and 2011-2012
• Top Three Faculty Paper, Newspaper Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2005
• Livingston Awards Finalist (for top journalist in the nation under age 34), 1993