The Rev. Dr. A. G. Roeber, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Studies, Penn State University, is currently Professor of Church History, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. Born in Paonia, Colorado, he began his graduate work at the University of Denver and completed his Ph.D.

at Brown University. He has taught at various universities in North America and in Germany. His Palatines, Liberty, and Property was the 1993 co-winner of the American Historical Association's John H. Dunning Prize for the best book on any aspect of American history in a two-year period. He is a past president of the Orthodox Theological Society in America and most recently co-author of Changing Churches (2012); co-editor, Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology (2016); author, Mixed Marriages: An Orthodox History (2018); editor, Human v. Religious Rights? (2020); and author, Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution (2024).