Dean Johnson
Assistant to the Provost, Assistant Dean, and Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies
Phone: 574/535.7728
E-mail: deanjj@goshen.edu
 Dean Johnson is the Goshen College represetnative for Plowshares. He is a teaching and administrative faculty member at Goshen College. He is Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies and also teaches in the Bible, Religion and Philosophy department. Johnson is also Assistant to the Academic Dean and Special Assistant to the Provost. He recently completed a position as director of the Goshen College Plowshares Peace Studies Project. Prior to working at Goshen College Johnson was interim administrative coordinator for Mennonite Urban Ministries in Denver, Colo. The first instructor to teach a peace studies course at Anderson University, he has also lectured in peace studies at Purdue University-Richmond, Ind., the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership at Bethany Seminary and the Indianapolis Peace House. He also served as co-assistant pastor for a year at the Richmond Church of the Brethren (Ind.).
Johnson grew up in LaGrange, Ind. After graduating from Manchester College, he earned a master's degree in theology with an emphasis in peace studies from Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Ind. He is currently a doctoral candidate enrolled in the religious and theological studies program focusing in religion and social change at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver. Johnson's dissertation is titled, "Critiquing the Soul of White Supremacy and the Theologies of Whiteness: Narrative Theology and Everyday Praxis" He is a member of the American Academy of Religion and a former board member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association.
He resides in Fort Wayne, Ind. with his spouse Melissa Bennett and their infant son, Jude. Johnson attends Beacon Heights Church of the Brethren in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Personal Webpage: http://www.goshen.edu/~deanjj/ |
Floyd Saner
Plowshares Director of Instructional Technology
Phone: 574/535.7404
E-mail: fesaner@goshen.edu
 Saner
joined Goshen College in 1984 as a computer science professor
and director of academic computing services, prior to which
he worked as an electrical design engineer. He obtained
his doctorate in 1999 from Illinois Institute of Technology.
An early adopter of technology in education, using Web-based
and other online resources in his courses, Saner has attended
numerous seminars on distance and distributed education,
taught computer science and multimedia courses and held
training seminars on creating Web sites.
Using his knowledge of computer science, teaching pedagogies,
and engineering, he will help introduce new ways of using
technology in the classroom and provide guidance to the
Collaborative and to Goshen College faculty as they move
forward in the realm of virtual connectivity. |
Joseph Liechty
Plowshares Associate Professor of Peace, Justice
and Conflict Studies
Phone: 574/535.7802
E-mail: joecl@goshen.edu
 A
scholar, peace practitioner and mission worker in Ireland
for 23 years, Joseph Liechty most recently served as the
graduate program coordinator and lecturer in reconciliation
studies at Trinity College Dublin (Belfast campus) and was
also a mission associate with Mennonite Mission Network.
He previously co-directed the Moving Beyond Sectarianism
project for the Irish School of Ecumenics. He has written
extensively on sectarianism, reconciliation and Irish history.
Liechty is acquainted and has worked with many of the people
who now hold positions of power and influence in Ireland,
including the president.
Liechty received his bachelor's degree in history from
Goshen College in 1978 and his doctorate degree in Irish
History from St. Patrick's College in Ireland in 1987. |
Anne Meyer Byler
Plowshares librarian
Phone: 574/535.7427
 Anne
Meyer Byler brings a background as a librarian and peace
writer to her position as Plowshares librarian.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in peace studies and
French at Goshen College, and went on to receive a master’s
degree in library science from the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana.
An experienced adult reference and consulting libriarian,
Meyer Byler has also written extensively on peace topics,
including a book, How To Teach Peace to Children (with companion
website materials), and continues a bi-monthly peace-themed
article for “On the Line,” the Mennonite magazine
for middle school students.
She created and maintains an extensive online “Annotated
Peace Resources” list for the Mennonite Peace and
Justice Support Network.
Meyer Byler serves on the board of the Lombard Mennonite
Peace Center and is chair of the Study Circles Steering
Committee in Goshen.
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