Steven M. Nolt is professor of history and Anabaptist studies and director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame and holds a graduate theology degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.
His Amish-related research has taken him into dozens of settlements across the United States and in Ontario, and has focused on community formation and history, economic and social change, and the role of technology in Amish life.
Nolt is the author or coauthor of fourteen books on Amish, Mennonite, and Pennsylvania German history and contemporary life. His recent titles include The Amish: A Concise Introduction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and A History of the Amish (3rd ed., Good Books, 2015). With Donald Kraybill and Karen Johnson-Weiner, he wrote The Amish (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), the definitive study of Amish society and cultural diversity.
He also serves as the series editor for Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Nolt was a faculty member at Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana) prior to his appointment at the Young Center, and served as the book review editor for the journal Mennonite Quarterly Review.