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CredentialsWhy a notice on credentials?? With so much information on the Internet it is difficult to differentiate between credible sources and crackpots. This is especially true for students who are using Internet sources for term papers and research projects. Therefore, we present our credentials below so that you know who we are and what we are up to. E-mail address: remoore@mail.sdsu.edu |
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Dr. Carlton Goodlett (1915-1997) was awarded a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California in 1938, when he was 23, and earned his M.D. six years later. In 1949 he became editor and publisher of the San Francisco Sun-Reporter. Dr. Goodlett was Chairman of the Board of the New Journal & Guide in Norfolk, Virginia and the Big Red Newspaper in New York City. The founder of the Reporter Publishing Company, he was elected four times as President of the National Newspaper Publishers Association--Black Press of America.
Kevin Hozak graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Religion from the University of North Dakota in May, 1998. He is the designer of the website "Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple," and continues to help with site design.
Dr. Scott Lowe is the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota. Co-author of DA: The Strange Case of Franklin Jones, and author of numerous studies on New Religious Movements, Lowe is a specialist in Chinese and other Asian religions.
Mary McCormick Maaga, Ph.D., is a graduate of Drew University Graduate School, where she focused on the sociology of religion and the study of New Religious Movements. Her dissertation, "Triple Erasure: Women and Power in Peoples Temple" was published in 1998 by Syracuse University Press as Hearing the Voices of Jonestown. Dr. Maaga taught at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and currently serves as a United Methodist minister in northern California along with her husband, Rev. Boikanyo Maaga.
Fielding M. McGehee, III, is the co-editor of two books on Peoples Temple and Jonestown: The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown and New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and Peoples Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy, both published by Edwin Mellen Press. A graduate of Antioch College, Mr. McGehee is a professional writer and editor, an expert on Freedom of Information Act law, and the founder of Reivers Press, a small company which helps families publish memory books about children who have died. Mr. McGehee is a Research Associate for the website "Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple," and creator of the "Jonestown Primary Audiotape Project."
Barbara Moore served as a community volunteer for a number of nonprofit organizations in northern California. She cared for over twenty foster children in her home, in addition to providing a residence for college students and foreign students. She traveled to Paris, France to encourage a negotiated settlement to the end of the Vietnam War, and participated in civil rights and anti-war demonstrations throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Ms. Moore has a B.A. in English from the University of Rochester.
The Rev. Dr. John V Moore is a retired United Methodist minister in the California-Nevada Annual Conference. A graduate of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, he served in a number of churches in northern California, as well as worked as a District Superintendent and a campus minister, for over forty years. Most recently he served on the Board of Directors of Loaves and Fishes, a nonprofit organization serving the homeless of Sacramento, California, and the Bioethics Committee of the University of California at Davis. He continues to be an active preacher, writer, and community volunteer.
Rebecca Moore is the author and co-editor of five books on Peoples Temple published by the Edwin Mellen Press. She teaches at San Diego State University. Her other specialty is the study of Jewish and Christian Dialogue, and her book Jews and Christians in the Life and Thought of Hugh of St. Victor was published in 1998 by Scholars Press. She is co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of New and Emergent Religions, along with Catherine Wessinger.
Robert B. Moore taught American history for 30 years at San Bernardino Valley College. Prior to teaching, Mr. Moore served as the youth and campus minister at the First Baptist Church in Redlands, California, and as pastor to Gateway Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Moore has a B.A. in history from Stanford University, a Bachelor of Divinity from Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, and an M.A. in U.S. History from Arizona State University.
B. Alethia Orsot belonged to Peoples Temple for eight and one-half years. She escaped the deaths in Jonestown because she was in Georgetown, Guyana for a dental appointment. Her biography is part of her story and is included in her article on the website.
Dr. Mary R. Sawyer is an associate professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She is a graduate of the Howard University School of Divinity and completed her doctorate in the sociology of religion at Duke University. She is the author of the book Black Ecumenism: Implementing the Demands of Justice (Trinity Press, Intl., 1994).
Dr. Archie Smith, Jr. is the James and Clarice Foster Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling at the Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Relational Self: Ethics and Therapy from a Black Church Perspective (1982), Navigating the Deep River: Spirituality in African American Families (1997), and with K. Bernie Lyons, Tending the Flock (1998).
Catherine Wessinger is Associate Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University, New Orleans. She edited the book, Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence (Syracuse University Press, 2000), and wrote How the Millennium Comes Violently (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000), and analysis of violent millennial groups, including Peoples Temple. Dr. Wessinger is editor of Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership: New Roles Inside the Mainstream (University of South Carolina Press, 1996), and Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions: Explorations Outside the Mainstream (University of Illinois Press, 1993), and author of Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism (Edwin Mellen Press, 1988). She is a former chair of the New Religious Movements Group, a program unit of the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Wessinger is co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of New and Emergent Religions. |
