in understanding Amish beliefs and practices and served as an expert witness at the federal trial in 2012. He wrote a book about the attacks, investigation, trial, and aftermath: Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers. In August 2014, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the hate crimes convictions, a ruling that generated much response. Kraybill was selected to research and write a centennial history of Eastern Mennonite University, his alma mater, that was published in 2017. Bibliography Our Star-Spangled Faith, 1976. Puzzles of Amish Life, 1990. Old Order Amish: Their Enduring Way of Life (with Lucian Niemeyer), 1993. The Amish Struggle With Modernity (Co-edited with Marc Alan Olshan), 1994. The Riddles of Human Society (with Conrad L. Kanagy), 1999. The Riddle of Amish Culture, 2001. Anabaptist World USA (with C. Nelson Hostetter), 2001. On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren (co-author: Carl Bowman), 2001. The Upside-Down Kingdom, 2003. The Amish: Why They Enchant Us, 2003. Who Are the Anabaptists: Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites, 2003. The Amish and the State, 2003. Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (with Steven M. Nolt), 2004. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy (with Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-Zercher), 2007. . The Amish of Lancaster County (with photography by Daniel Rodriguez), 2008. . The Amish Way: Patient Faith in a Perilous World (with Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-Zercher), 2010. . Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites, 2010. . The Amish (with Karen M Johnson-Weiner and Steven M Nolt), 2013 . Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Amish, 2014. . Personal life Kraybill lives in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, with his wife. He and his wife are members of Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren. See also D. Holmes Morton, medical researcher of genetic disorders common among Amish References American Mennonites American sociologists Temple University alumni Eastern Mennonite University alumni Mennonite writers Living people People from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Elizabethtown College faculty Messiah University Millersville University of Pennsylvania alumni American Brethren 1945 births