Janneken Smucker

Janneken Smucker (Ph.D., University of Delaware) is a professor of history at West Chester University, specializing in material culture, digital history, and American and global cultural history. She writes and lectures on Amish quilts for both academic and popular audiences. She published Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon with the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013. Learn more at www.janneken.org.

Contact information:
jsmucker@wcupa.edu

Amish Studies is an academic website developed by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College to provide reliable information on Amish life and culture. Designed to assist scholars, students and the general public, the site was developed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Amish population statistics are updated annually in the summer. Other information is updated periodically.

For an in-depth discussion of the Amish:

Authors: Donald Kraybill, Karen Johnson-Weiner, Steven Nolt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013; paperback, 2018)