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Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. . Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin Co
Michael D. C. Drout (/ d r aʊ t /; born 1968) is an American Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College.He is an author and editor specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Jacobs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1987. [3] He was the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois) until 2012 when his hiring to Baylor was widely noted as part of the competition between these two Christian colleges.
Dennis M. Hanno (born 1955) is an American accountant and academic administrator was served as 11th president of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, for more than seven-year term. He also served as provost of Babson College. Hanno is a Clinical Associate Professor at Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University.
Larycia Alaine Hawkins (born August 22, 1972) is an American scholar, author, and speaker, who in 2013, became the first female African-American tenured professor at Wheaton College, a Christian Protestant liberal arts college. There she served as an associate professor of political science.
Bruce Ellis Benson (born 1960) is a professor of philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois. [1] Publications. Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, ...
The Billy Graham Center, whose building is known as the Billy Graham Hall, was founded and opened in 1981 on the campus of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Named after Billy Graham, the center is the primary location for many of Wheaton College's bible and theology classes, as well as the graduate school's main headquarters, and host to ...
After earning his PhD, Grady was hired by Wheaton College in Norton MA and appointed professor of sociology in 1990. He occupied the Hannah Goldberg Chair at Wheaton College from 1994 to 2004, and the William Isaac Cole Professor of Sociology from 2010 to 2015. He also served as president of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA ...