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Regina Shands Stoltzfus
Professor of Peace
Justice
and Conflict Studies
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Regina Shands Stoltzfus
Education
- B.A., Cleveland State University, 1998
- M.A., Ashland Theological Seminary, 2001
- PhD, Chicago Theological Seminary, 2017
Presentations
- 2026 Martin Luther King Day Lecture at University of Montana, “Resistance, Resilience, and Radical Love”
- Keynote speaker, Damascus Road 30th Anniversary Gathering, Goshen College, Goshen, IN, March 2025.
- Presenter: “Leadership for Antiracist Spiritual Formation.” Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Leadership Clinic, Elkhart, IN. February 19, 2024.
- Anti-racism Training Co-Facilitator (with Dr. Tobin Miller Shearer): Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice. Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, PA. January 27, 2024.
- Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar Lecturer, Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, ON, Canada. March 2022.
- “Unapologetically Just.” Keynote speaker, Martin Luther King Jr. Study Day, Goshen College, Goshen IN, January 20, 2020.
Publications
- Resistance, Resilience, and Radical Love: Reflections on Blackness and Teaching Peace. Tehom Center Publishing, 2025.
- “Blinders and Power: Women of Color Proclaim” with Iris de Leon Hartshorn, Proclaiming the Good News: Mennonite Women’s Voices 1972-2006. Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2023.
- “Racism in the 21st Century: Will Our Institutions Show Up?” Leader Magazine, Spring 2021, Volume 18 No 3.
- Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality. Herald Press, 2021, with Tobin Miller Shearer.
- “Pacifism and the Assault on Marginalized Bodies.” in Liberating the Politics of Jesus, Studies in Anabaptist Theology and Ethics Volume 2, T&T Clark, 2020.
- “The Effects of Segregation on Theologies of Creation Care.” Mennonite Quarterly Review, January 2020, Number 1.
- “Where is Home?” The Mennonite, August 5, 2019, https://themennonite.org/where-is-home/
- “Black in America,” The Mennonite, March 1, 2019, https://themennonite.org/feature/black-america-coming-terms-racial-history/
- Cordova, Guynn, Johnson and Shands Stoltzfus. Resist, Organize, Transform: An Introduction to Nonviolence and Activism, First Edition. Cognella Academic Publishing, 2020.
- Set Free: A Journey Toward Solidarity Against Racism. Herald Press, 2001, with Tobin Miller Shearer and Iris DeLeon-Hartshorn.