Crossroads Office Phone: (724) 847-6891

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  Dr. Eric Miller

  Honors Program Director & Professor of History

  Email: emiller@geneva.edu

  
  

  Eric Miller directs the Honors Program at Geneva College, where since 1999 he has been a professor of history and humanities. His research, writing, and teaching center on American intellectual and cultural history, as well as the history of Latin America.
  
  A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Miller spent his high school years in Brazil, where his parents were church-planting missionaries for thirty years. After taking a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies from Lancaster Bible College, he worked in youth ministry for three years. He went on to earn an M.A. in Christian thought from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the PhD in American history from the University of Delaware. His most recent scholarly efforts have taken him back to South America. He is currently the project director of a grant that has brought together a team of international scholars studying the rise of evangelical Protestantism in Brazil.
  
  Dr. Miller’s Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (Eerdmans, 2010) won first place in Christianity Today’s 2011 book awards in the history/biography category. Along with John Fea and Jay Green, he is the co-editor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation (Notre Dame, 2010). He is also the author of a collection of essays called Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longing (Cascade Books, 2012). His essays and reviews have appeared in a range of publications, including Commonweal, Books & Culture, Christian Century, First Things, The Cresset, Christianity Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Fides et Historia.
  
  Dr. Miller and his wife Denise have three sons, ranging from 15 to 23, and are members of First Presbyterian Church, Beaver. An avid hobbyist, Dr. Miller enjoys gardening, hiking, camping, playing guitar, and following the Pittsburgh Pirates, among others.

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  Dr. Jeff Cole

  Crossroads Director & Professor of History

  Email: jscole@geneva.edu

  
  

  Jeffrey Cole is professor of history and humanities and has been a faculty member at Geneva College since 2003. In 2009, Dr. Cole was awarded Geneva’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Professor Cole earned his Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and his B.A. in history and M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Lynchburg College in Virginia. Currently, he is director of Crossroads: Geneva’s Center for Enriched Learning, the office that supports the work of the Honors Program. The subject of Professor Cole’s dissertation was the Great Depression and New Deal in the South. He has published a variety of pieces that focus on transiency during the Great Depression, his current area of research. Dr. Cole served for two years as Geneva’s faculty member-in-residence at the College’s Rome campus and was director of Geneva College’s Semester in Rome for seven years. He still enjoys introducing students to the glories of Rome, Florence, and Venice during short-term study trips. Dr. Cole’s interest in programming for highly motivated students dates back to his involvement with the Virginia Governor’s School for Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts at the University of Richmond (Virginia) where he served as a faculty member and, eventually, director of the annual, month-long summer enrichment program for more than a decade.
  
  Professor Cole and his wife Christine met and married during graduate school. They have a 15-year-old son, Quentin. The family is actively involved at First Presbyterian Church in Beaver, Pennsylvania where Dr. Cole sings with the praise team, has served as an elder, and chairs the Worship & Music Committee. For recreation and relaxation, he enjoys gardening and cycling. Travel is a lifelong passion and Professor Cole has had the privilege of seeing much of the US, spending time in the Peruvian jungle, visiting many countries in Europe and Asia, and island-hopping in the Caribbean. Ironically, he has never toured Canada, but hopes to get there soon.

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  Peggy Duguid

  Assistant Director

  Email: maduguid@geneva.edu

  
  

  Peggy Duguid is the Crossroads Assistant Director and has worked with the Honors Program students since 2013. She earned her B.A. in History from Grove City College and her M.A. in Higher Education from Geneva College. Before coming to Geneva she taught English at Sárospataki Református Kollégium Gimnáziuma in Hungary and worked on curriculum development for an online high school. Her research for her Master’s capstone focused on assessing the long-term intercultural learning gains of students who participated in a variety of international experiences.
  
  Peggy and her husband Sam met while in college and married a few years later. They share a love for travelling and exploring new places. They have a cat named Cassiopeia and several birds. Peggy enjoys baking, dancing, home remodeling, and gardening.

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