VITA Jerry L. Summers Professor of History East Texas Baptist University Scarborough Hall 309 ~ 903.923.2084 [email protected]
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in College Teaching with History, University of North Texas 1985-1990
M.Div. in Religion, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1976-1979
B.A. in History, Baylor University 1972-1976
TEACHING & UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE:
Dean, School of East Texas Baptist University 2005-Present Humanities
Professor of History East Texas Baptist University 1991-Present Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Teaching Fellow University of North Texas 1989-1990
Adjunct Instructor Dallas County Community College 1989-1990 District—Brookhaven
Bible Chair Instructor Mitchell-Scurry Baptist Association 1980-1985 / Baptist General Convention of Texas, Division of Student Work— Western Texas College, Snyder
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
Baptist Student Union Mitchell-Scurry Baptist 1980-1985 Director Association, Western Texas College, Snyder
Radio Announcer KSNY, Snyder, Texas 1984-1985, part-time
Warehouse and Delivery Lone Star Plywood and Door Jan. – Aug.1980, Jun. – Corporation, Irving, Texas Aug. 1985
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Pastor Beech Fork Baptist Church, Gravel 1977-1979, part-time Switch, Kentucky
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES:
Conference on Faith Biennial Conference, Regent October 2016 and History University, Virginia Beach, VA
Lilly Fellows Network National Conference, Augsburg October 2016 College, Minneapolis
Baptist Historians Baptist History and Heritage May 2016 Society Annual Meeting, Waco
Lilly Fellows Network Senior Administrators’ October 2015 Conference and LFN Annual Conference, Belmont University, Nashville
Conference on Faith Biennial Conference, September 2014 and History Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Lilly Fellows Network Drafted successful application August 2012; Academic for university to Small Grant Year 2013-2014 Program, administered in the following year.
Lilly Fellows Network Network National Conference October 2011 as faculty representative for ETBU, Samford University, Birmingham.
Baptist Historians Baptist History and Heritage May 2011 Society Annual Meeting and Fellowship of Baptist Historians, Dallas Baptist University
Lilly Fellows Network Drafted successful university August 2010 application for LFN membership.
Academic Leadership Reunion Seminar on Academic May 2011 Leadership in Baptist
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Universities, Baylor CMEEL, Waxahachie, Texas
Humanities Leadership Symposium on the Future of the March 2011 Humanities, Council of Independent Colleges, at Johns Hopkins School of International Studies, Washington, DC
Conference Biennial Conference on Faith October 2010 and History Meeting, George Fox University, Newburg, Oregon
Institutional SACS-COC Summer Institute July 2009 Effectiveness; Teaching on Quality Enhancement and and Learning Accreditation, Houston Assessment
Academic Leadership Baylor-BGCT Academic May 2009 Leadership Seminar, Waco
Travel-study Trip coordinator / professor for May 2006, 2008, 2010, student travel-study to UK and Mar. 2003, Jan. 2000 China
Conference on Faith Shawnee, Oklahoma Sept. 2006 and History biennial meeting
60th Annual National Conway Arkansas July 22-24, 2006 Conference of Academic Deans
Academic conference Coordinator and participant, July 2005 and tour academic interdisciplinary conference, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, China; historical and cultural touring relevant to teaching area in Chinese history and partnerships with academic institutions.
Conference planning With vice-president for May 2004 trip and tour academic affairs, a planning trip for 2005 academic conference in
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China, meetings with Chinese partner academic institutions.
Sabbatical Regent’s Park College, Jan.—Apr. 2002 University of Oxford, UK – Research and study in Nineteenth-century British Isles, medieval history and philosophy.
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:
With Providence at the Sam B. Hall Lecture Series, East Texas Feb. 28, 2017 Crossroads Baptist University
Social Poverty and the Biennial Conference on Faith and History, Oct. 22, 2016 Reconstruction of Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA Identity in Time and Space
Sam B. Hall Jr. and the Harrison County Historical Museum Society, Oct. 4, 2016 Beloved Community Journey Stories, Marshall Visual Arts Center
Faithful Historians, The Conference on Faith and History, Sept. 27, 2014 Reality, and Hope for Pepperdine University, Malibu, California the Generations: The New Thinking, Personalism, and Education
Texas Baptists and Texas State Historical Association, joint Mar. 2013 Philanthropy session with the Texas Baptist Historical Society, “Giving ‘til It Helps—Texas Baptists and Philanthropy.”
The Cruel Gravity of Biennial Conference on Faith and History, Oct. 2012 This Time: Franz Gordon College, Wenham, Mass. Rosenzweig and Cultural Space for the German Jews
The Founders’ Dream of East Texas Historical Association, Session Sept. 2011 the College of Marshall, IV: East Texas Religious Influences; 1912 Nacogdoches
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Rosenzweig’s Star of Conference on Faith and History biennial Oct. 2010 Redemption, the Eternal meeting, George Fox University, Newburg, People, and the Oregon Christians of Modern Europe
The 19th-Century Session on British Evangelicals, Baylor Oct. 8-10, English Baptists, Institute for Faith and Learning Conference, 2009 Religious Equality, and Secularization and Revival the Limits to Secularization
History, Hope, and Conference on Christianity and Literature, Feb. 22, 2008 Doops Momber’s Quest Letourneau University, Longview, Texas for The Glad River
The Founding Dream of Texas Baptist Historical Society session, Mar. 9, 2007 the College of Marshall Texas State Historical Association, San & Sept. 2011 Antonio; revision presented at East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches
Panel presentation and Tenth Annual East Texas Judge / Bar Oct. 12-13, discussion on Judge Sam Conference, Galveston 2006 B. Hall, Jr.
The Consolations of Conference on Faith and History biennial Sept. 2006 Tradition and meeting, Shawnee, Oklahoma Philosophy: Sima Qian, Boethius, and History.
Examining Christian An essay review of Miroslav Wolf and 2006 Hope William Katerberg, eds., The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition amid Modernity and Postmodernity (Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2004) in Fides et Historia, combined issue 37:2 (Summer/Fall 2005) and 38:1 (Winter/Spring 2006): 187-194.
Lecture Sam B. Hall, Jr., Lecture Series, East Texas Nov. 28, 2005. Baptist University
Christianity and Chinese Institute for Faith and Learning Annual Nov. 10-12, Traditional Society in Pruitt Symposium, Baylor University 2005 Crisis: Resources in
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Christianity and the Chinese Churches
Panel Discussion on East Texas Historical Association, Sept. 2005 Sam B. Hall, Jr. Nacogdoches
The People’s Republic Connecting World Views Academic July 24-26, of China and the United Conference, Lanzhou University of 2005 States of America: Technology, Lanzhou, China; published in Responding to the book of proceedings by Gansu People’s Challenges of Publishing House, July 2005. Transformation
Sam B. Hall, Jr: Biography published by East Texas Baptist 2005 Whatever is Right University and Best of East Texas Press
Seminar: Living Faith, Veritas Conference, Lexington Christian Apr. 19-22, Living History Academy, Lexington, Massachusetts 2004
Ethical Implications of Western Conference on British Studies, Oct. 3-5, 2002 the Debates on Irish Little Rock, Arkansas Church Disestablishment
Contested Truths: Ireland Session, BRISHIN (British Island Apr. 17-19, British National Identity Stories: History, Identity, and Nationhood) 2002 and the Debates on Irish Conference, King’s Manor, University of Church York, England Disestablishment
Historical Models for V-5 Paradigm Retreat, Camp Webster Aug. 12-14, Developing Leadership Conference Center, Salina, Kansas 2001
Millennialism, Fides et Historia 31 (Summer/Fall 1999): 1999 Globalization, and 1-11. History.
Transforming Christian Workshop paper, V-5 Paradigm Retreat, June 15-16, Education Uncertain, Caddo Lake, Texas 1999
Teaching History, the Ronald A. Wells, ed., History and 1998 Gospel, and the the Christian Historian. Grand Rapids: Postmodern Self Eerdmans
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Millennialism, The Conference on Faith and History, Sept. 24-26, Historicism, and Twenty-first Fall Meeting, Lipscomb 1998 Globalization University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Scholarship and Finalist, Howard Vollum Writing Award Nov. 1996 Science: The Struggle (Horizons of Science and Christian Faith), Between Christian Faculty Dialogue, (Writing Awards Issue) Theism, Metaphysical <
Since John Brown’s American Studies Association of Texas Nov. 21-23, Body: Prejudice, Fortieth Annual Meeting, East Texas Baptist 1996 Pluralism, and University, Marshall Perceptions in the Late Twentieth Century
Postmodern Challenges, The Conference on Faith and History, Oct. 10-12, History, and the Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1996 Curriculum
Joy and the Life of Charge to the Scholars, University Scholars Oct.6, 1995 Learning at East Texas Induction Program Baptist University
Spirituality, Intellect, Faculty Address, The Sam B. Hall, Jr., Oct. 29, 1993 and Diversity: Lectureship, East Texas Baptist University, Reconsidering Racism in American History and Embracing Ethnic Diversity in the Christian University
Does Postmodernism Southwestern Social Science Annual Mar. 30, 1990 Pose a Challenge to Meeting Historical Scholarship?
The Transformation of Eleventh Mid-America Conference on Sept.16, 1989 Nineteenth-Century History, Stillwater, Oklahoma Frontier Colleges and the Great Frontier Thesis of Walter Prescott Webb
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The Flowering of The Journal of Religious Studies 15 (Nos. 1 1989 Chinese Protestant and 2, 1989): 16-51. Christianity Since the Cultural Revolution, 1976-1987
Web Book: Oral Editing and presentation for Dr. L. L. Ongoing from Biography of Dr. L. L. Morriss, U. S. Army chaplain, Texas Baptist 2006 Morriss pastor and denominational servant. Oral biography continuing, online at: http://www.llmorriss.com
Book Reviews:
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities, by James Turner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014, in Fides et Historia 47:1 (Winter/Spring 2015). An Act of Providence: A History of Houston Baptist University, 1960-2010, by Don Looser, in Baptist History and Heritage 47:1 (Spring 2012): 78-9. Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch, by Eric Miller. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010, in Fides et Historia 43 (Winter/Spring 2011): 117-118. A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion, by Catherine Albanese.Yale University Press, 2006, in Fides et Historia 39:2, (Summer/Fall 2007), 139-141. Decolonization Since 1945: The Collapse of European Overseas Empires, by John Springhall. New York: Palgrave, 2001; in Teaching History 29:2 (Fall 2004): 96-7. Baptists Against Racism. Edited by Denton Lotz. McLean, Va.: The Baptist World Alliance, 1999, in Baptist History & Heritage 36:1&2 (Winter/Spring 2001): 301-2. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History, by Michael Burns. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999, in Teaching History 25:1 (Spring 2000): 44-5. Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America, by Edwin S. Gaustad. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1999, in Baptist History and Heritage 35:2 (Spring 2000): 97-8 People Behind the Peace: Community and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, by Ronald A. Wells. Grand Rapids & Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 1999, in Fides et Historia 32:1 (Winter/Spring 2000): 145-6. The Trinitarian Theology of Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), Context, Sources, and Controversy, by Thomas C. Pfizenmaier. Vol. 75 of Studies in the History of Christian Thought, ed. Heiko A. Oberman, in Fides et Historia 31:2 (Summer/Fall 1999): 139-41. John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce, by D. Bruce Hindmarsh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996; in Baptist History & Heritage, 34:2 (Spring 1999), 96-7. The Scientific Revolution, by Steven Shapin, in Fides et Historia 28:3 (Fall 1996): 112-113. Disraeli, by Ian Machin, in Teaching History 21:2 (Fall 1996): 93. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, by Howard Bloom, in Christian Scholar's Review 25:4 (Fall 1996), 534-6. Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature, by Arnold Krupat, in JASAT: Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 25 (October 1994), 92-3.
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The Early American Wilderness as the Explorers Saw It, by Bill Lawrence, in JASAT: Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 23 (October 1992): 79-80. The Churches of China: Taking Root Downward, Bearing Fruit Upward, by Britt E. Towery, Jr., (Waco: Long Dragon Books, 1987), in Search 19:2 (Winter 1989): 60-62.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
Memberships: • Baptist History and Heritage Society – Life Member • Conference on Faith and History • Texas Baptist Historical Society • Harrison County Historical Museum • Association for the Scientific Study of Religion
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