Elizabethtown College Peace Fellowship

One of the Center's major events in the fall is the visit of the annual Peace Fellow. The College hosts a several-day residency of a peace scholar, who connects with the campus community through a lecture and several other events.

2026 Elizabethtown College Peace Fellow: Sarah Augustine

Headshot of Sarah Augustine, 2026 Elizabethtown College Peace Fellow

2026 Peace Fellow Lecture: Embodying Peace: Decolonization and Non-Violent Action
Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m.
Susquehanna Room, Myer Hall

Sarah Augustine presents “Embodying Peace: Decolonization and Non-Violent Action,” where she will explore the intersection of systemic nonviolence and decolonization through the lens of Christian peacemaking. Co-founder and Executive Director of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, Augustine is a leading advocate for Indigenous communities, representing their interests before governments and international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Past Elizabethtown College Peace Fellows include:

2025: Dr. Jeanne Elberfeld, Licensed social worker and retired family practitioner; mental health consultant with Child Development, Inc.
2024: Dr. David Radcliff, Director of the New Community Project, Previously Director of Peace, Environmental and Hunger Programs for the Church of the Brethren General Board
2023: Dr. Donna Hicks, Expert in international affairs, Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
2022: Dr. Christena Cleveland, Social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist
2020: Dr. Donald Brown, Elizabethtown College Scholar-In-Residence and Professor for Sustainability Ethics and Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School
2019: Dr. Drew Hart, Professor of Theology at Messiah College
2018: Dr. John Reuwer, Emergency physician; Adjunct Professor of Peace and Justice at St. Michael's College
2017: Dr. Celia Cook-Huffman, Professor of Conflict Resolution at Juniata College
2016: Melanie Snyder '83, Executive Director at the Lancaster County Reentry Management Organization
2015: Dr. Celia Cook-Huffman, Professor of Conflict Resolution at Juniata College
2014: Dr. Robert Johansen, Senior Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
2013: Dr. Ellen Marshall, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation at Emory University
2012: Matthew Southworth, Foreign Policy Legislative Associate at the Friends Committee on National Legislation
2011: Dr. John Dernbach, Co-Director of the Environmental Law Center at Delaware Law School
2010: Dr. Ron McAllister, Provost and Dean of the Faculty Emeritus at Elizabethtown College
2009: Joshua Casteel, Board of Directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War
2008: Dr. Caroline Hartzell, Director of the Globalization Studies Program at Gettysburg College
2007: Lee Griffith '70, Author of God is Subversive: Talking Peace in a Time of Empire
2006: Andrew Murray, Director of the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College