James M. Stayer was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, on March 15, 1935. His ancestors were Pennsylvania Germans from families that emigrated from Germany in the middle of the eighteenth century. He received a PhD from Cornell University in 1964. He taught in the Department of History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from 1968 to his retirement in 2000. He supervised the PhD dissertations of Werner O. Packull, Geoffrey Dipple, and Michael Driedger. His most influential publications are Anabaptists and the Sword (1972) and A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 1521-1700 (2007), co-edited with John D. Roth. He gave the annual Menno Simons Lectures at Bethel College in 2008.
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