Donald A. Yerxa
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| Donald A. Yerxa | |
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| Residence | Hingham, Massachusetts |
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| Nationality |  U.S. |
| Employers | Eastern Nazarene College |
| Title | Professor of History |
| Known for | Editor, Historian |
| Religious beliefs | Christian |
| Website http://www.enc.edu/history/faculty.html |
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Donald A. Yerxa is an author, editor, and historian.[1]
He has been Assistant Director of The Historical Society[2] at Boston University[3] and Editor of the general history journal publication Historically Speaking[4] since 2001.
Yerxa was a member of the executive board for the Conference on Faith and History[5] from 2002 to 2006, currently serves on the editorial board of the online journal New Global Studies,[6] and is editing a multi-volume series, Historians in Conversation, for the University of South Carolina Press. He also guest edits for publications, such as the European Review, for which he guest edited a forum on the Scientific Revolution, and is a Contributing Editor for Christianity Today's Books and Culture magazine.[7]
He is a frequent contributor to the Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology publication for the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) and has been a multiple grant recipient.[8] His most recent grant organized a conference on "British Abolitionism, Moral Progress, and Big Questions in History."[9]
Don Yerxa has been on faculty at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts and currently holds the positions of History Department Chair and Director of the Pre-law program at Eastern Nazarene College, where he has taught since 1977.
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[edit] Education
Yerxa received his Bachelor's degree in History from Eastern Nazarene College in 1972. He received a Master's degree (1974) and Ph.D. (1982) from the University of Maine on a university fellowship.
[edit] Published works
Yerxa has written encyclopedia entries for four encyclopedias on United States history and the history of science,[10] and is the author of three books, two on naval history: Admirals and Empire,[11] and The Burning of Falmouth,[12] and Species of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story[13] with coauthor Karl Giberson. Admirals was described as "solidly researched, clearly and economically written, and intelligently conceived... a useful synthesis filling a gap in the existing literature,"[14] Species of Origins was widely reviewed as a uniquely even-handed and concise contribution to the scholarship on the Creation-Evolution controversy in the United States. Galileo scholar William Shea lauded the account as the "best-written and most perceptive of the current accounts available,"[15] while author Edward Larson described it as the "next best thing for those of us not enrolled in their courses."[16] Michael Ruse described it as “a simply invaluable primer on the subject that should be made compulsory reading for all who have ever thought on science-and-religion ... I can think of no better place to start into the debate about origins — creationism or evolution — than with this book.”[17] It has been the subject of and catalyst for various discussions, conferences, and other books.[18]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Gordon College History Department Newsletter PDF for Winter 2007: "History in Oklahoma City" by Emily Brunnell ('07), p. 2
- ^ Interview conducted by Dr. Yerxa with Peter Galison, featured by Harvard University History Department
- ^ The Historical Society
- ^ Historically Speaking
- ^ Conference on Faith and History, space provided by Huntington University
- ^ Editorial Board for the NGS of BEPRESS
- ^ Books & Culture: a Christian Review
- ^ [1] & [2]
- ^ In London on April 26-28, 2007. Participants included David Brion Davis, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Jeremy Black, Eamon Duffy, Peter Harrison, David Hempton, Wilfred McClay, George Marsden, and Lamin Sanneh. The conference explored whether the example of British abolitionism offers any clues to historians on moral progress and human betterment.
- ^ Donald A. Yerxa CV
- ^ Donald Yerxa, Admirals and Empire: The U.S. Navy and the Caribbean, 1898-1945, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991 ISBN 087249750X
- ^ Donald Yerxa, The Burning of Falmouth, 1775: A Case Study in British Imperial Pacification, October 18, 1775. Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1976
- ^ Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa, Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002 ISBN 0742507645
- ^ Journal Storage Archive for the American Historical Review (2 pp.)
- ^ Book blurbs for Species of Origins, from Rowman & Littlefield
- ^ Larson, Edward (Nov-Dec 2003). "Don't know much biology.(Science Pages--Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story, by Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa)(Book Review)". Books & Culture: a Christian Review 9 (6): 26.
- ^ National Center for Science Education
- ^ Examples: CONFERENCE EXAMINES EVOLUTION, INTELLIGENT DESIGN, Grove City College, January 05, 2007 and [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/RUSEVO.html?show=reviews On The Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse
