Wesleyan Center fellows and scholars are chosen based on the significance of their studies in tracing the Wesleyan heritage for the 21st century – and in research and projects that further the academic mission of PLNU.
Click the links below to see the recipients for the corresponding year
2006-2007 l 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 l 2002-2003 l 2001-2002
2000-2001| 1999-2000 |1998-1999 | 1997-1998 |1996-1997 | 1995-1996
1995-1996
Dr. John Wright, Fellow–Fall 1995
Proposed Book: Weaving the Story of God: Homiletics as American Biblical Hermeneutics
Dr. G. Michael Leffel, Fellow–Spring 1996
Proposed Book: Transformation of the Tragic Person: On the Therapeutic Action of Prevenient Grace Within the Human Personality
Dr. Dean Nelson, Fellow–Spring 1996
Proposed Book: The Family of the 21st Century: Exploring Issues of the Next 20 Years
Dr. David P. Whitelaw, Scholar–1995
Published Book: Maps & Models for Ministry (PL Press, 1996)
1996-1997
Dr. Carol Blessing, Fellow–Fall 1996
Paper Presented: Neither Schafly nor Steinem: The Wesleyan Women on the Nineties (Wesleyan Center Conference, 1997)
Dr. Rick Kennedy, Fellow–Fall 1996/Spring 1997
Proposed Article: Intellect and Affections in Logic and Pneumatology Textbooks by Isaac Watts, Phillip Doddridge, and John Wesley
Dr. Ron Kirkemo, Fellow–Fall 1996
Proposed Book: Grace and Peace: A Wesleyan View of World Politics
Dr. Vic Heasley and Dr. Dale Shellhamer, Fellows–Spring 1997
Research: Reaction of Trichlorophenol with Hypochlorite Ion (Ca(ocl) ) in Methanol: Analysis of Products of High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Research: Synthesis of Sensitive Radical Cation Probes: A Test for Reactions Involving
Initial Electron Transfer.
Dr. Gerard Reed, Scholar–Summer 1996
Book accepted for publication: Soulfood for Life’s Journey (based on Wesleyan Center Project: C. S. Lewis’ Final Call: Holiness)
Dr. Hadley Wood, Scholar–Summer 1996
Research: Truth, Being and Otherness: A Search for Texts Within and Beyond Contexts
1997-1998
Dr. G. L. Forward, Fellow–Fall 1997
Research: Social Support Seeking Among Clergy During Organizational Entry
Dr. Hadley Wood, Fellow–Spring 1998
Research: The Wesleyan Word in a World of Text and Context
Dr. Carol Blessing, Scholar–Summer 1997
Proposed Book: Reaffirming Women in the Wesleyan Tradition
Kay Harkins, Scholar–Summer 1997
Proposed Journal: Susanna: A Literary and Scholarly Journal of Wesleyan
Women’s Thought
Dr. Rick Kennedy, Scholar–Summer 1997
Proposed Book: Historians and the Testimony of Miracles
Dr. Keith Pagan, Scholar–Summer 1997
Research: Choral Settings of Wesley Texts
Dr. Sam Powell, Scholar–Summer 1997
Proposed Book: The Idea of the Trinity in German Philosophy and Theology
Dr. Barry T. Ryan, Scholar–Summer 1997
Proposed Book: Luther and Wesley on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: Do Great Minds Really Think Alike?
Lois Wagner, Scholar–Summer 1997
Research: Wesleyanism: Implications for Response to Those Wounded by Poverty, Stigma, and Illness
1998-1999
Dr. Sam Powell, Fellow–Fall 1998
Proposed Book: Holiness and Community
Dr. G. Michael Leffel, Fellow–Spring 1999
Proposed Book: Transformation of the Tragic Person: Prevenient Grace in the Culture of Psychotherapeutic Care
Dr. Linda Beail, Scholar–1998
Research: Theorizing Gender from an Historically and Theologically Wesleyan Perspective
Dr. Vicki Hesterman, Scholar–1998
Research: Media influence on the church and society and the responsibility of the academy: Integrating secular ethical considerations and the Wesleyan perspective
Dr. Rick Kennedy, Scholar–1998
Proposed Book: Testimony, Trust, Faith and Assent in the History of Logic
Dr. David Kerk, Scholar–1999
Research: Irreducible Complexity in Cellular Structure: An Examination of Behe’s Hypothesis
Dr. Dean Nelson, Scholar–1998
Research: “Grace in Family Life”
Student Researcher: Lindsay Morgan
1999-2000
Dr. John Wright, Fellow–Fall 1999
Research: “I & II Chronicles: A Narratological Commentary”
Dr. Anthony Avallone, Scholar–1999
Research: “A Wesleyan Paradigm for First World, Third World Relations: A Study of the Rich Man and Lazarus”
Student Researcher: Joel Thickins
Dr. Patty Hambrick, Scholar–1999
Research: “Wesleyan Faculty Practices”
Student Researcher: John Kirkemo
Dr. Paul Kenyon, Scholar–1999
Research: “Grace, Truth and Playing the Piano: A Musician Encounters John Wesley”
Dr. Karl Martin, Scholar–1999
Research: “American Exceptionalism in American Religious Narratives”
Dr. Sam Powell, Scholar–1999
Research: “God’s Relation to the World in the Thought of Jurgen Moltmann and
Wolfhart Pannenberg”
Dr. Gerard Reed, Scholar–1999
Research: “Vice and Virtue in C.S. Lewis”
Dr. Diana Reynolds, Scholar–1999
Research: “Manufacturing Austria: Regional Craft Schools and Austrian
Identity 1871-1918”
2000-2001
Dr. Gay Olivier-Lilley, Fellow–Fall 2000
Research: “Characterization of the Metal Content and Substrate Specificity of the Extracellular Alkaline Phosphatase from ‘Lysobacter enzymogenes’”
Dr. Sam Powell, Fellow–Fall 2000
Research: “God’s Relation to the World in Modern Thought”
Dr. Philip D. Bowles, Scholar–2000
Dr. Randall King, Scholar–2000
Dr. Kathryn McConnell, Scholar–2000
Research: “Faith and Film: A Wesleyan Perspective” (A collaborative project of research and writing with a student colloquium)
Student Researcher: Bryan Baldwin
Dr. Enedina Martinez, Scholar–2000
Research: “John Wesley’s Theology of Education”
Student Researcher: Jennifer Everingham
Dr. Mike Mooring, Scholar–2000
Research: “The Behavioral Ecology of Desert Bighorn Sheep in New Mexico”
Student Researcher: Thomas Fitzpatrick
Dr. Jerry McCant, Scholar–2000
Research: “Ministry as Strength in Weakness”
Dr. David Whitelaw
Commissioned: “Nazarene Centennial History Project”
2001-2002
Dr. Rebecca Flietstra, Fellow–Fall 2001
Research: “A Natural Human Capacity for Community”
Dr. Michael Mooring, Fellow–Fall 2001
Research: “The Behavioral Ecology of Desert Bighorn Sheep in New Mexico”
Dr. Brad Strawn, Fellow–Fall 2001/Spring 2002
Research: “Between Nature and Grace: Mapping the Interface Between Psychology and Wesleyan Theology”
Dr. Paul Bassett, Scholar–2001
Research: “The Sacred Space of Inner Crisis”
Dr. Michael Lodahl, Scholar 2001
Publication: “God of Nature and of Grace: Reading the World in a Wesleyan Way”
2002-2003
Dr. Karl Martin, Fellow–Fall 2002/Spring 2003
Research: “The Rhetorical Structure of Sacred/Historical American Narratives”
Dr. Lisa Bernal, Scholar–2002
Research: “The Abode of the Just—A Theology of Justice”
Dr. Rebecca Flietstra, Scholar–2002
Research: “Biology, Moral Behavior, and the Means of Grace”
Dr. Rick Kennedy, Scholar–2002
Research: “Testimony and Authority in the History of Logic Textbooks”
Dr. Bettina Pedersen, Scholar–2002
Research: “Tracings: The Imprint of Feminism and Wesleyan Theology”
Dr. Sam Powell, Scholar–2002
Research: “A Wesleyan Contribution to Creation-Theology”
Dr. Gerard Reed, Scholar–2002
Research: “John Wesley, Prevenient Grace, and the Natural Law”
2003-2004
Dr. Kathryn G. McConnell, Fellow—Fall 2003
Research: “Integrating Literature, Film and the Arts”
Dr. Diana J. Reynolds, Fellow—Spring 2004
Proposed Publication: “Manufacturing Mother Austria: Arts and Crafts Reform and Austrian Identity in the age of Imperialism (1878-1918)”
Dr. Senyo Adjibolosoo, Scholar–2003
Research: “Educating for Peace in the Middle East the Human Factor Way: Tinkering with the Individual’s Map of Being”
Dr. Dean Nelson, Scholar–2003
Research: “Living the Sacraments in the 21st Century”
Dr. Bettina Tate Pedersen, Scholar–2003
Research: “Tracings: The Imprint of Feminism and Wesleyan Theology”
Dr. Keith G. Walker, Scholar–2003
Research: “Feasibility Study in Using Chaos Theory for Prediction and Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots”
Dr. Carl Winderl, Scholar–2003
Research: “Marian Theology and the Wesleyan Tradition”
2004-2005
Dr. Sam Powell, Fellow–Fall 2004
Proposed Book: Theology and Contemporary Psychology
Dr. Carol Blessing, Scholar-2004
Proposed Book: Constructing a Wesleyan View of Women
Dr. Richard Hill, Scholar-2004
Proposed Book: Teaching C.S. Lewis: A Handbook for College, Community, and Church
Dr. Ron Kirkemo, Scholar-2004
Research: “Ethics and the Use of Contract Workers in Foreign Policy and National Security Activities”
Dr. G. Michael Leffel, Scholar-2004
Proposed Book: Between Sacred Mind and Compassionate Heart: Morality, Developmental Spirituality, and the Therapeutic Process
Dr. Michael Mooring, Scholar-2004
Research: “Reproductive Biology and Conservation of American Bison: Behavior, Hormones, and Population Genetics”
Dr. Bettina Pedersen, Scholar-2004
Proposed Book: Tracings: The Imprint of Feminism and Wesleyan Theology
Dr. Jeff McKinstry, Fellow-Fall 2005
Research: “Learning Finite State Machines as a model of the prefrontal cortex: simulating the acquisition of intelligent behavior”
Dr. Senyo Adjibolosoo, Scholar-2005
Proposed Book: Educating for Peace in the Middle East the Human Factor Way
Dr. Carol Blessing, Scholar-2004
Proposed Book: Constructing a Wesleyan View of Women
Dr. Lisa Bernal Corley
Research: “A Theology of Justice”
Dr. Michael Mooring
Research: “Genetic parentage analysis of American bison at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge”
Dr. Brad Kelle, Fellow-2006
Research: “A Commentary on the Book of Ezekiel”
Dr. Michael Lodahl, Fellow-2007
Research: “Readers of the Scriptures: The Bible and the Qur’an Side-by-Side”
Dr. Carol Blessing, Scholar-2006
Research: “Uncovering Mary Tooth of Madeley: Early Methodist Woman Preacher”
Charlene Pate, Scholar-2006
Visiting Research Scholar in Wesleyan Studies, Manchester Wesley Research Centre, Manchester England
Lois Wagner, Scholar-2006
Service Project in Wesleyan Practices,
Fundatia Veritas in Sighisoara, Romania
Dr. John Wright, Scholar-2006
Research: “Vatican II and Two Paths for the Wesleyan: Aggiornamento and Ressourcement”
Dr. Maria Zack, Scholar-Spring 2007
Research: Wesleyan Center Colloquium Series, “Let Your Life Speak: Vocation and the Ordinary Christian”