Donald A. Yerxa

Donald A. Yerxa
Residence	Hingham, Massachusetts
Nationality	U.S.
Alma mater	Eastern Nazarene College, University of Maine
Employer	Boston University
Known for	Editor, Historian
Title	Director, Senior Editor
Website	http://www.enc.edu/history/faculty.html

Donald A. Yerxa is an author, editor and historian.

Yerxa received his Bachelor's degree in History from the 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. A noted historian, Yerxa is a Director of The Historical Society (THS) at Boston University (BU) and a Senior Editor of Historically Speaking, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for BU.

He is the former chair of the James R. Cameron Center for History, Law, & Government at his alma mater, the Eastern Nazarene College (ENC), where he taught from 1977 to 2009, and launched the history department's distinguished lecture series in the 1990s. He was a member of the executive board for the Conference on Faith and History from 2002 to 2006, currently serves on the editorial board of the online journal New Global Studies, and is editing a multi-volume series, Historians in Conversation, for the University of South Carolina Press.

Yerxa 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. 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. His most recent grant organized a conference on "British Abolitionism, Moral Progress, and Big Questions in History."

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