Quaker Studies: An Overview

Jon R. Kershner, Ph.D. (2013, University of Birmingham), is Honorary Researcher in Quaker Studies at Lancaster University. His publications include John Woolman and the “Government of Christ”: A Colonial Quaker’s Vision for the British Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2018).C. Wess Daniels is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. His Ph.D. is in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has published widely on renewal, culture and change within the church. His most recent book is titled A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture (Cascade Books, 2015).Robynne Rogers Healey, Ph.D. (2001), University of Alberta, is professor of history and co-director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia. Her publications include From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community Among Yonge Street Friends, 1801-1850 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), and multiple chapters and articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transatlantic Quakerism.