M.A. Wheaton College; M.S.Ed. Northern Illinois University; M.S. University of Illinois; C.A. Academy of Certified Archivists
Assistant Professor, Library Science and
Head of Archives and Special Collections
Wheaton College
Phone: (630) 752-5707
E-mail: David.B.Malone@wheaton.edu
My main duties revolve around serving as a manuscripts librarian for the College's archive and the Library's special collections. In that capacity I provide bibliographic and research instruction for various general education and upper-division courses; patron reference and collection development for general, archival, and special collections; and, cataloging and processing of archival and special collections material. I also provide special subject lectures for various general education and upper-division courses, such as Historical Inquiry, Age of Johnson, New Testament Literature, and others. I welcome the opportunity to assist students, faculty, and others with their research needs. The College Archives documents Wheaton history, while the Special Collections provides rare and unique resources for research or general interest. Please feel free to contact me with any of your research concerns.
Liaison to Politics and International Relations and the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals: in my role as liaison for the above departments and programs, I seek to aid the classroom faculty in the acquisition, provision, facilitation, and instruction in use of information resources and research in the areas of politics, political science, and international relations, and American Evangelicalism. These resources may range from videos to archival materials to books and journals to online databases. I am available to provide individual or group workshops and seminars for both faculty and students.
Recent Reading and Research:
Most of my reading time is focused upon professional topics and
resources, recently the nature of academic and Christian librarianship.
However, I have also spent a good deal of time reading on the life of
Wheaton's first president Jonathan Blanchard and his abolitionist
activities, including the abolitionists he associated with, like Owen
Lovejoy, a Wheaton trustee. I have also been reading on the U.S. Civil
War as it relates to the issue of slavery and the Christian church. In
addition to reading, I spend time as documentary and cooking program
junky.
Recent Professional Activities and Publications:
"Jacob Gruber" in The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion (Junius P. Rodriguez, ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007.
"Jonathan Blanchard" in Encyclopedia of African American History (Paul Finkelman, ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
"A Pilgrim's Progress," Wheaton, vol. 8, no. 3 (Autumn 2005).
"Camp meetings and Bible camps in New York," "George Inness," "John
Nepomucene Neumann," "Cyrus Reed Teed," and "American Missionary
Association" in Encyclopedia of New York State (Peter Eisenstadt, ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Malone, D. B., Muelder, O., & Powell J. (June 2004). "The anti- slavery college movement in Illinois" Panel at Lamps of Knowledge, Lights to Freedom: vital roles of Illinois' educational institutions and communities in the anti-slavery and post-war eras symposium, Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL.
Malone, D. B. (May 2004). "Blows and Blood: the abolitionist career of Jonathan Blanchard." Lecture presented at the 2004 Spring Treasures of Wheaton Lecture, Wheaton, IL. Online exhibit created January 2004. (http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/arcsc/exhibits/jblanchard1/).
"Billy Graham" in Encyclopedia of Leadership (James MacGregor Burns, George R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, eds.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.
"U.S. Civil War and Christian Churches" in Encyclopedia of Religion and War (Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, ed.). New York: Routledge, 2004.
Maas, D. and Malone, D. B. "Mustered In: Wheaton College students in the Civil War" (60 sq. foot exhibit on selected Wheaton students that served in the U.S. Civil War), Buswell Memorial Library, September 2003 - June 2004.
"The Ground Mourns: Malcolm Muggeridge and the Ukraine Famine, 1932- 33." The Gargoyle: the journal of the Malcolm Muggeridge Society, no. 2 (April 2004): 6-10.