Dr. Anneke Stasson
Anneke Stasson earned a BA from Calvin College (2003), a Master’s degree in Church History from Regent College in Vancouver, BC (2006), and a doctorate in the History of Christianity from Boston University (2013). Before coming to IWU in 2016, Anneke taught in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. Anneke teaches several courses in the John Wesley Honors College, including “Wisdom, Culture, and Justice Through the Ages I,” “Honors Seminar on Faith and Scholarship,” and “Who Is Our Neighbor.”
Anneke researches women and family life in the history of Christianity. Together with a colleague from Biola, she wrote the award-winning book Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles Throughout Christian History. In addition to positive reviews in journals like Christian Scholars Review, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, and International Review of Mission, Women in the Mission of the Church received the 2021 American Society of Missiology Book of the Year Award and was also named a “Resource of the Year” by Outreach Magazine in 2022. Dr. Stasson and Dr. Dzubinski, have been featured on many podcasts, including Alabaster Jar, and the Gospel Beautiful Podcast.
Anneke is also the author of Walter and Ingrid Trobisch and the Globalization of Modern, Christian Sexual Ethics (2021). The Trobishes helped to shape a transcultural conversation about love, sex, gender identity, and marriage during the mid-twentieth century. Anneke’s current research is on how converts to Christianity in early-twentieth-century China and India conceived of Christian home life. For this research, Anneke has received grants from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and Indiana Wesleyan University’s Lilly Scholarship Fund. She hopes her research will eventually culminate in a book tentatively titled, The Christian Home in Global Protestant Mission Thought and Practice: 1800-2000.
Anneke is a beloved mentor and professor. She has recently been invited to speak at events like the Always Forward Church Planting Conference of the Anglican Church of North America and Baylor University’s Evangelical Studies Program conference. Anneke lives with her husband, Steve, and four kids, Mary Lou, Eleanor, Ruthann, and Joseph, all of whom enjoy raising chickens, sheep, and cows on their little farm just north of Marion.