Director
Glenn Pierce
Director
GPierce@messiah.edu
A 1970 graduate of Messiah College, Glen Pierce has served his alma mater as director of the Brethren in Christ Historical Library and Archives and Archives of Messiah College since 2007. He has a long history of service to both the College and its founding denomination, both in the U.S. and internationally.
In his current post, Pierce is responsible for securing new acquisitions, cataloging and preserving materials, and conducting research.
Assistant Professor of American Religious History
Director of the E. Morris and Leone Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies
Director of Archives
Devin Manzullo-Thomas
Assistant Professor of American Religious History
Director of the E. Morris and Leone Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies
Director of Archives
Devin is currently working on two book projects. The first is Storyteller: The Life and Times of E. Morris Sider, a scholarly biography of E. Morris Sider, the namesake of the Sider Institute and one of the most prolific scholars in the Brethren in Christ Church. The second is Open to the Spirit: The Brethren in Christ Church in the Twentieth Century, a new history of the Brethren in Christ Church in North America between 1900-2000. Both projects are under contract with the Brethren in Christ Historical Society.
Devin Manzullo-Thomas
Assistant Professor of American Religious History
Director of the E. Morris and Leone Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies
Director of Archives