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Dr. Anders received her PhD in Religion and Social Change from the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Joint PhD Program. She continues her scholarship as an independent historian headquartered in Colorado, USA. She founded and directs the woman-owned business, Writing the World, LLC (www.writingtheworld.com), offering ghost writing (short form only), editing, and research. With nonfiction as her specialty, Anders’ publishing portfolio sports more than 50 scholarly-journal book reviews, blogs, and encyclopedia entries on history and international relations along with three chapters (two co-authored) for anthologies on Mexico-US migration with a focus on the betabeleros (Mexican and Mexican-American beet field workers) and their contributions to the sugar industry of western Nebraska, University of Illinois Press, Routledge, and Texas A&M University Press. Through NCIS, she contributed a fun recipe-essay for our Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars: A Learned Cookbook (2022) and a chapter on mentoring for the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars (2024). Two books are forthcoming: the full-length biography (a rewrite of her doctoral dissertation) exploring activist/author L. Maria Child's spiritual journey through the toil and turmoil of nineteenth-century America (formerly contracted with Swedenborg Foundation; now seeking new publisher); and second, her debut social-justice/political memoir chronicling the love story between her, a liberal activist arrested and jailed for civil disobedience, and her husband, a Rush Limbaugh-loving conservative. She highly values the collegiality of like-minded scholars and researchers offered by NCIS.
Current research areas:
Spiritual biography of L. Maria Child (1802-1880), one of the most well-known authors and activists of 19th-century America; Betabelero (Mexican and Mexican-American Beet Field Workers) Oral History Project in Western Nebraska, interviewing former betabeleros; Western Nebraska sugar industry and the Betabeleros through the eyes of art, Sugarbeet Workers Mural by Carlos Hernandez Chavez; Junius Groves (1859-1925), African American farmer, entrepreneur, and businessmen from eastern Kansas
Recent scholarly activity:
Encyclopedia articles (individual profiles) for the premiere African American history online reference center, BlackPast.Org; book reviews for the International Journal on World Peace; completing my full-length spiritual biography of 19th-century US author/activist, Lydia Maria Child (formerly under contract with Swedenborg Foundation; now seeking new publisher); political/relationship memoir (submitting to publishers, 2025); spiritual memoir in process
Recent publications:
Chapters in Edited Collections*
Chapter, “The Power and Empowerment of Mentorships for Scholars,” NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, Linda Baines and Amanda Haste, eds. National Coalition of Independent Scholars (2024).
Essays in Published Editions
“L. Maria Child’s 19th-Century Election Cake,” Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars: A Learned
Cookbook, Helen Ross, Amanda Haste, and Linda Barnes, eds. National Coalition of Independent Scholars (2022).
Editor
English Edition, Reskilling: Human Resources in the Digital Ages, Works Report 2020. Naoka Ishihara et al. Ginza Chuo-ku, Japan: RECRUIT Works Institute (2020).
Encyclopedia Entries
"William Lloyd Garrison," Mitchell K. Hall, ed., Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements (ABC-CLIO, 2017).
Book Reviews
Review, Healing through the Bones: Empowerment and the Process of Exhumations in the Context of Cyprus, Kristian T.P. Fics, The International Journal on World Peace (December 2018).
Review, Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, Agricultural History (2017).
*[Note: I experienced a writing hiatus from 2017-2023 due to caring for my husband with stage 4 cancer and then moving through the deep mourning processes following his death.]
Forthcoming research:
L. Maria Child: One Woman’s Spiritual Journey in Nineteenth Century America. (formerly under contract with Swedenborg Foundation Publishers, seeking new publisher).
Other activities:
Writing my spiritual memoir which puts forth a more inclusive model of spiritual-religious growth and development. Contributing to my alma mater's, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, online Career Conversations for current students, 2022-present.
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