Steven M. Nolt

Steven M. Nolt is a professor of history at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, where he has taught since 1999. He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame, and a graduate theology degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

He has studied Amish history and culture across many settlements. His books on the Amish include A History of the Amish (rev. ed., Good Books, 2003); Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (2nd ed., with Donald B. Kraybill, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities (with Thomas J. Meyers, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); and Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War (with James O. Lehman, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

His other publications include Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic (Penn State University Press, 2002). He is also Book Review Editor for the journal Mennonite Quarterly Review.

He is married to Rachel (Miller) Nolt and they are the parents of two daughters.