{"id":60,"date":"2014-12-12T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:20:56","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center is directed by Dr. Robert H. Ellison, Associate Professor of English. He has been working in sermon studies for over thiry years; his major <a href=\"https:\/\/mds.marshall.edu\/do\/search\/?q=author_lname%3A%22Ellison%22%20AND%20author_fname%3A%22Robert%22&amp;start=0&amp;context=2101447&amp;sort=date_desc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">projects<\/a> have included writing <a href=\"https:\/\/mds.marshall.edu\/english_faculty\/67\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/em><\/a> (Susquehanna University Press, 1998), editing <a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/edcollbook\/title\/12728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century<\/em><\/a> (Brill, 2010), and serving as a \u201cconsultant editor\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-british-sermon-1689-1901-9780198709770?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901<\/em><\/a> (Oxford, 2012). His current projects include curating the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mds.marshall.edu\/sermons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Library of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital Repository of Sermons <\/em><\/a>and co-editing (with Keith Francis)\u00a0<em>Preaching and the Sermon in the Twentieth Century. An Introduction to Sermon Studies<\/em>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/page\/forthcoming_sips\">Studies in Preaching and the Sermon<\/a> series, both in association with Brill.<\/p>\n<p>Additional guidance for the Center is provided by an Advisory Board of Marshall faculty and staff, local clergy, and scholars at other institutions:<\/p>\n<p>Larry Bailey, Pastor, Living Water Free Methodist Church, Huntington, WV<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Cope, Associate Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University<\/p>\n<p>Laura Michele Diener, Associate Professor of History, Marshall University<\/p>\n<p>Keith Francis,\u00a0Event Coordinator, Arete Educational and Event Services<\/p>\n<p>Zach Hutchins, Assistant Professor of English, Colorado State University<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Kessler, Assistant Professor in Religion, Gustavus Adolphus College<\/p>\n<p>Patricia McKee, Independent Teacher\/Scholar<\/p>\n<p>John Morgan-Guy, University of Wales Trinity Saint David<\/p>\n<p>Amine Oudghiri-Otmani, Instructor of English, Marshall University<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Reed, Associate Professor of Church History, Brigham Young University<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Ruff, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Marshall University<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Professor of History, University of Central Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p>Larry Sheret, Instruction and Emerging Technologies Librarian, Marshall University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center is directed by Dr. Robert H. Ellison, Associate Professor of English. He has been working in sermon studies for over thiry years; his major projects have included writing The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Susquehanna University Press, 1998), editing A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century (Brill,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sermon-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}