Michael G. Long is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies at Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown College is a small comprehensive college located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster County. The school was founded in 1899 by members of the Church of the Brethren...

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Career

Long has published numerous works on Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the...

, the Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was...

, Billy Graham

Billy Graham

William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian evangelist. As of April 25, 2010, when he met with Barack Obama, Graham has spent personal time with twelve United States Presidents dating back to Harry S. Truman, and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for...

, and Christian living. His most recent publication is First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson which has received many favorable reviews. The Legacy of Billy Graham: Critical Reflections on America's Great Evangelist is his forthcoming work which is set for release in January 2008.

At Elizabethtown College he teaches courses on Christian social ethics, the Civil Rights Movement, and peace and conflict studies, and works with many notable colleagues including: Donald Kraybill

Donald Kraybill

Donald B. Kraybill is a prolific author, lecturer, and educator on Anabaptist faiths and living. Kraybill is widely recognized for his studies on Anabaptist groups, and is the foremost living expert on the Old Order Amish....

 and Jeffery D. Long

Jeffery D. Long

Jeffery D. Long is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania, USA. He is associated with the Vedanta Society, DĀNAM and the Hindu American Foundation...

, among others.

Degrees

• Ph.D, Emory University
  Emory University
  Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
  
  , 2000
• M.Div., Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
  Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
  The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg is America's oldest Lutheran seminary and a site of 1863 Battle of Gettysburg military engagements.-History:...
  
  , 1990
• B.A., Geneva College
  Geneva College
  Geneva College is a Christian liberal arts college in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States, north of Pittsburgh. Founded in 1848, in Northwood, Ohio, the college moved to its present location in 1880, where it continues to educate a student body of about 1400 traditional undergraduates in...
  
  , 1985

Selected works

• Against Us, But for Us: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the State, Mercer University Press 2002, ISBN 0-8655-4768-8
• Have the Time of Your Life: Living for God in Each Moment, Chalice Press 2003, ISBN 0-8272-1446-4
• Martin Luther King, Jr. on Create Living, Chalice Press 2004, ISBN 0-8272-0496-5
• Billy Graham and the Beloved Community: America's Evangelist and the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., Palgrave Macmillan 2006, ISBN 1-4039-6869-1
• God and Country: Diverse Perspectives on Christianity and Patriotism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, ISBN 1-4039-7300-8
• First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson, Times Books 2007, ISBN 0-8050-8710-9
• The Legacy of Billy Graham: Critical Reflections on America's Great Evangelist, Westminster John Knox Press 2008, ISBN 0-6642-3138-1

External links

• Elizabethtown College Homepage