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Mark Marston Norris, Phd

Mark Marston Norris, Ph.D.

Professor of European and World History; Pre-law Advisor; Director, Winona History Center

  • B.A., Spring Arbor University; M.Sc., University of Edinburgh, U.K.; M.A., Grace Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, U.K.

  • 800-544-7223, ext. 6256

Areas of Expertise
  • English and Scottish History Asian History and Geography European History.
  • Pre-law Studies including Mediation Social Studies 20th Century America.
Research
  • Tudor England: politics, society, and law India: early modern and modern American religious history: Brethren, early 20th century women evangelists
Professional Organizations and Affiliations
  • American Historical Association Departmental Membership.
  • Conference on Faith and History Indiana Council for the Social.
  • Studies National Council for the Social Studies North American.
  • Conference on British Studies.
Publications
  • The Changing Balance of Wealth and Power in Rural Essex from the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the Fall of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, 1571 – Part II, Essex Society for Archaeology and History, Winter 2024.
  • The Changing Balance of Wealth and Power in Rural Essex from the Dissolution of the Monasteries to the Fall of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, 1571 – Part I, Essex Society for Archaeology and History, Autumn 2023.
  • The Rise of the Manners Dynasty in Mid-Tudor England: A Social History of English Politics. Lampeter, Wales, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2022.
  • Becoming Grace: Seventy-Five Years on the Landscape of Christian Higher Education in America. Co-edited with Jared Burkholder. Winona Lake, IN: BMH, 2015.
  • The Transformation of World History: “From European Recitations to Experiencing Global Villages”, as in Viewpoints, an on line bulletin of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies, Robert Brady, ed., 2014.”
  • A Cord of Many Strands: Reexamining Grace Brethren Identity and the Fundamentalism of Alva J. McClain”, as in The Activist Impulse. Eugene OR: Pickwick Publications, 156-184, 2012.
  • The 2nd Earl of Rutland’s Band of Men-At-Arms, 1551-2, Historical Research, vol. 68, no. 165, pp. 100-116. London, The Institute of Historical Research, 1995.
  • Chancery Decree Rolls: C78/86-130 vol. 254, assistant editor with R.W. Hoyle. The National Archives, Key, Richmond, Surrey: List and Index Society, 1994.
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