Elizabeth Miller

At Goshen College I teach entry-level history courses, Anabaptist history, and courses within the global education curriculum. I also direct the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA), which seeks to enrich Anabaptist scholarship and communities through global connection and storytelling. We bring international guests to campus, connect remote researchers with the resources of the Mennonite Historical Society, encourage publication of new research, and share Anabaptist stories with communities in Goshen and beyond. I especially love connecting Goshen College students with this work! In this role, I also serve as the general editor of the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) and represent the ISGA in the Comunidad de Instituciones Teológicas Anabautistas (CITA).

Before coming to Goshen College, I worked in Colombia for nine years as a researcher and nonprofit leader with Mennonite Central Committee. My current research interests include the history of transnational theological networks among Latin American Anabaptists in the late 20th century and participatory methods for historical research in global contexts.

Education

• MA in Theological Studies, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2013
• BA in History, Goshen College, 2006

 

Board Membership:

• Mennonite Historical Society
• GAMEO Management Board
• MCUSA Archives Advisory Committee

BOOKS

• Desde el principio anabautistas: la historia de las iglesias menonitas y hermanos menonitas en Colombia, 1946- 1975. Translated by Clara Helena Beltrán. Bogotá: Editorial Gente Nueva, 2022.
• Lisa Weaver and Elizabeth Miller. Let the Children Come to Me: Nurturing Anabaptist Faith within Families. Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing House, 2018.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• “The Future(s) of Anabaptist History: Global Perspectives and Methods.” Plenary address at Early Anabaptism in Global Perspective: Past, Present, and Future at 500 Years, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, July 24, 2025.
• “500 años y el desafío de las nuevas y viejas generaciones: ¿Qué hacer con lo viejo?” Plenary address at the Primera Consulta Teológica de la Comunidad de Instituciones Teológicas Anabautistas, Mexico City, Mexico, February 19-22, 2024.
• “From ‘Social Action’ to ‘Life Abundant’: The historical development of Anabaptist peace theology among Colombian Mennonites, 1970-2000.” Paper presented at the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, June 15-18, 2023.
• Review of A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace: Global Mennonite Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Nonviolence, edited by Fernando Enns, Nina Schroeder-van ’t Schip, and Andrés Pacheco-Lozano. Mennonite Quarterly Review 98, no. 1 (Jan 2024): 109-110.
• “MCC accompanying the Colombian Anabaptist churches in their witness for peace,” Intersections: MCC theory and practice quarterly 8.3 (Summer 2020): 14-17.
• “Responding to natural hazards in a conflict zone: MCC’s experience in Colombia,” Intersections: MCC theory and practice quarterly 7.4 (Fall 2019): 3-5.
• Conrad Kanagy, Elizabeth Miller, and John D. Roth. Global Anabaptist Profile: Belief and Practice in 24 Mennonite World Conference Churches. Goshen, IN: Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism, 2017.
• “Just as I don’t know how many times I eat: Mennonite Brethren Self-Theologizing in Chocó, Colombia,” Anabaptist Witness 2.2 (2015): 35-53.
• “Migrants Learn Mission in Latin America: Colombian Mennonites and Mennonite Brethren in a Context of Rapid Urbanization, 1957-1980.” Mission Focus vol. 19 (2011): 9-17.