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The Author
Dancing with
the Kobzar
Perry Bush, Bluffton, Ohio, is
Professor of History at Bluffton College. He was born and
raised in Pasadena, California, the son of a Fuller
Theological Seminary professor. He received his B.A. in
political science from the University of California,
Berkeley. Following 1981 graduation from college, he
spent a year in voluntary service with Habitat for
Humanity in Americus, Georgia, then worked several years
in Christian anti-nuclear activism in the San Francisco
Bay area.
He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in
history from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University
in 1987 and 1990, respectively. In his doctoral work he
explored the historical changes occurring in Mennonite
pacifism against the backdrop of extensive Mennonite
socioeconomic change in twentieth century America. This
dissertation research brought Bush into direct contact
with the Historic Peace Churches for the first time and
was a major factor in his decision to move to a Mennonite
college when the opportunity arose.
After revisions, Bush’s
dissertation, Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite
Pacifism in Modern America, was published in 1998 by
Johns Hopkins University Press. His many articles, both
scholarly and popular, have appeared in such periodicals
as the Mennonite Quarterly Review, Fides et
Historia and Sojourners.
Bush taught history at Phillips
University in Enid, Oklahoma from 1990 to 1994 before
moving to Bluffton College in summer 1994. He is married
to Elysia Caldwell Bush. They have three children: Kerry,
Jackson and Cassidy Bush. He is a member of First
Mennonite Church, Bluffton.
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