Donald Kraybill

Nationally recognized for his scholarship on Anabaptist groups, Donald Kraybill has written or co-written 18 books and dozens of professional articles.  Professor Kraybill’s research and commentary on Anabaptist groups has been featured in magazines, newspapers, and on radio and television programs across the United States and in many foreign countries. He is co-editor of Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, a series published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kraybill has received numerous awards including the National Religious Book Award for The Upside Down Kingdom. He has written and co-authored books on Amish life and culture, including The Riddle of Amish Culture, The Amish and the State, and Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits.  The latter two were each named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice.

His most recent book, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, is coauthored with Steven M. Nolt and David Weaver-Zercher. Amish Grace explores the Amish forgiveness story that followed in the wake of the Amish school shooting at Nickel Mines, Lancaster County, (PA) in the fall of 2006.  Amish Grace was published in late summer 2007.

Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (PA).