Resident & Non-Resident Scholars

He is the principal investigator on a five year project funded by the Skillman Foundation to evaluate it's "A Call To Service" (ACTS) faith-based initiative and is a co-investigator on the University of Michigan's on-going national study of drug use among American young people, "Monitoring the Future". Dr. Wallace's research has appeared in numerous professional journals, books and monographs including Social Work, the American Journal of Public Health, and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.

His social policy work consists of helping establish a national network of domestic violence fatality review teams. He has also worked on issues related to community policing, full faith and credit, and a number of other community justice initiatives.

Dr. Websdale trained as a sociologist at the University of London, England and currently lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Mr. Weinberg's research focuses on philanthropy, as well as anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in American education. His latest publications include The UnCivil University: Politics and Propaganda in Higher Education, An Exceptional Nation: American Philanthropy Is Different Because America Is Different, A Profile of American College Faculty vol. 1: Political Beliefs & Behavior, and A Profile of American College Faculty vol. 2: Religious Beliefs & Behavior. He is presently completing two monographs entitled Mega-Gifts in American Philanthropy vol. 2, and Mega-Gifts in Jewish Philanthropy.

Ph.D., M.A. University of Toronto, 1991; Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1985; M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1981; B. A., Northeastern Bible College, 1978. Ordained on September 15, 1981.

His books include works on historical and contemporary studies within Christian intellectual history. Most recently, he has written Evangelicals and Tradition: The Formative Influence of the Early Church (Baker Academic, 2005). He has also written Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants (Eerdmans, 1999) and Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene Arian Conflicts (Oxford University Press, 1995). He is the editor of and contributor to The Free Church and the Early Church: Essays in Bridging the Historical and Theological Divide (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002) and Arianism After Arius: Essays on the Development of the Fourth Century Trinitarian Conflicts (T & T Clark, 1993).

Williams has also published scholarly essays in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Journal of Theological Studies, Church History, Studia Patristica, Scottish Journal of Theology, Interpretation and Pro Ecclesia and serves as a manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press. While being a member of various academic societies, Williams is also on the executive board of the North American Patristic Society where he serves as chair of the Publications Committee.

Mr. Wubbenhorst is currently working on behalf of the US Department of Labor (DOL) and the Corporation for National and Community Service's Americorps*VISTA program on projects related to those agencies' faith-based and community initiatives. For DOL, this work entails supporting the Department's efforts to develop local partnerships between workforce development boards and faith-based and community organizations to better serve hard-to-reach populations with training and employment services. The work for Americorps*VISTA involves an evaluation of the number and types of faith-based and community organization partners, along with selected profiles of model programs, particularly in the area of mentoring children of prisoners.

Prior to that, Mr. Wubbenhorst worked for 8 years in Massachusetts state government. During his time in government, Mr. Wubbenhorst was directly involved in implementing changes to state contracting policies for human service providers through pricing and performance-based contracting reforms. He has also authored and published a case study for graduate management school on efforts to reform the state's $1.4 billion purchase-of-service (POS) system for funding social service programs.

Mr. Wubbenhorst has published a number of articles pertaining to Charitable Choice and the Faith-Based/Community Initiative and served as an independent research consultant for the Center for Public Justice, conducting research on Charitable Choice and other related faith-based initiatives. He recently published an article entitled Workforce Development and the BlackChurch -- Knowledge, Interest, Commitment, and Collaborative Potential: A Memphis Case Study in the Fall 2006 edition of Social Work and Christianity. Mr. Wubbenhorst previously published an article entitled Enough About Leveling the Playing Field: What's the Playing Field? in the Spring 2003 edition of Social Work and Christianity. Mr. Wubbenhorst also published a case study entitled CVS/pharmacy: It's a Matter of Faith through the Boston University in 2006. Mr. Wubbenhorst also authored two papers through the Center for Public Justice entitled Charitable Choice in Massachusetts: An Un-tapped Resource in February of 2000 and The Pitfalls of Contracts for Funding Faith-Based Ministries in January of 1998.

Mr. Wubbenhorst received an MBA with a concentration in Public/Non-Profit management, from Boston University's School of Management. He is currently a Technical Director at Macro, International, Inc.

Prof. Xiao's research interests include ethics and moral psychology, Chinese philosophy, and philosophy of language. His publications include "Trying to Do Justice to the Concept of Justice in Confucian Ethics" (Journal of Chinese Philosophy) and "Modernity as Differentiation: Liang Qichao's Social and Political Philosophy" (Blackwell Guide to Contemporary Chinese Philosophy). His book reviews have appeared in The Philosophical Quarterly, Norte Dame Philosophical Reviews and Journal of the American Academy of Religion. In 2004, he co-edited a special issue on Chinese political philosophy with Nick Bunnin of Oxford University for the journal Contemporary Chinese Thought. In 2005, he guest-edited a special issue on moral psychology in early Chinese philosophy for the journal Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. He has been the Book Review Editor of Dao since June 2005.

The courses Prof. Xiao has been teaching at Kenyon College are the following: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, Practical Issues in Ethics, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Contemporary Ethical Theory and Moral Psychology.

Prof. Xiao was born in Southern China. He received his B.A. in theoretical physics from Wuhan University and his M.A. in philosophy of language from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). From 1987 to 1993, he was a junior research fellow in the Institute of Philosophy at CASS. In 1989, he was a visiting student at Wolfson College at Oxford University, where he studied with Sir Peter Strawson. In the late 1990s, he studied with Prof. Bernard Williams at UC Berkeley.

Prof. Yang Xiao can be reached by email at xiaoy@kenyon.edu. He now lives with his wife Anna Xiao Dong Sun at Kenyon, who is a socioloigist and published writer.

Note to publishers who wish to have their scholarly books on comparative philosophy reviewed by Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy: please send your books to Prof. Yang Xiao, Department of Philosophy, Kenyon College, Gambier OH 43022.

He is the author of Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities (Penn State University Press 1999), the co-editor (with Tony Carnes) of Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries (New York University Press 2004), and the co-editor (with Joseph B. Tamney) of State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies (Brill Academic Publishers 2005) and Conversion to Christianity among the Chinese (a special issue of the Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 2006). His articles have been published in books and in the American Sociological Review, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Amerasia Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, the Sociological Quarterly, and Asia Policy, including one that won the “2002 Distinguished Article Award” of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (“Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications”) and one that won “2006 Distinguished Article Award” of the American Sociological Association’s Section of the Sociology of Religion (“The Red, Black, and Gray Markets of Religion in China”). His current research focuses on the political economy of religion in China, Christian ethics and market transition in China, faith and trust among business people in China, and Chinese Christian churches in the United States. He has given many invited lectures at universities and the Smithsonian Institution, and has been interviewed by the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, etc. and some newspapers in Asia.