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.
2025 Elizabethtown College Peace Fellow: Dr. Jeanne Elberfeld
2025 Peace Fellow Lecture: Peace Is Not in Our Control
Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.
Susquehanna Room, Myer Hall
Dr. Jeanne Elberfeld is a licensed social worker and retired family practitioner. She currently offers training for schools and community groups in brain and body-based understanding and behavioral interventions, honoring the unique needs of the person. Dr. Elberfeld works with Child Development, Inc. as a mental health consultant and as a NeuroLogic® by Lakeside Trainer and Coach.
She studied pre-med/biochemistry at Gannon University and continued her studies, earning an M.D. from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, now Drexel University College of Medicine, in 1987. She completed a three-year residency and was board-certified in Family Medicine in 1990.
Dr. Elberfeld will present her lecture, “Peace Is Not in Our Control,” which explores how society can nurture strong children and families to become integrated, connected individuals, who are the light-bearers and peacemakers our world needs, through the harmony of body, mind, and spirit.
Past Elizabethtown College Peace Fellows include:
- 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