Menno Simons Lectures
In 1950, the John P. and Carolina Schrag Kaufman family established the Menno Simons Lectureship Endowment. In 1997, the family of William E. and Meta Goering Juhnke contributed substantially to the endowment. The Kaufman and Juhnke families had their roots in the Eden Mennonite Church, Moundridge, Kan.
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Diasporic Lives: Mennonites, Migration, and the Search for Home
Dr. Hill is an authority on 16th-century Anabaptism who lives and writes in Scotland. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and has lectured at Oxford, the University of East Anglia, and Birkbeck College, London. In 2015, she published Baptism, Brotherhood, and Belief: Anabaptism and Lutheranism, 1525-1585 (Oxford University Press), and her second book, titled Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter (William Collins, 2024), was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. Her third book will be titled Endlings: Last Things, Extinctions and Endtimes. She also is working on a project about global Mennonite belonging.
Dr. Hill’s lectures explored home and belonging in Mennonite communities viewed as a diasporic people. She examined how Mennonites sought and built new homes through their reflections on family, landscape, and rituals and by using architecture and archives, among other things.
