Jeff Peterson (PhD Cand)

Jeff is a life-long educator who has focused much of his career on international education and marginalized students. During his early career he served as a full-time lecturer in education at Montana State University-Billings (MSU-B) where taught classes in educational history and learning psychology. While at MSU-B, he helped launch the Rocky Mountain Language and Culture Institute, where he also served as the Program Director for the International Student Department. As someone who has a special interest in historically marginalized students, Jeff served for nearly a decade as a teacher and a curriculum direction for a mission school on the Crow Indian reservation in Montana where he developed a special interest in the history of Native American Christianity and the culture of the Crow people. Jeff’s academic interests led him to found Global Travel Alliance, an educational travel organization that provides learning experiences for students and adults in Europe, Latin America, North America and parts of Asia. He also founded Global Doing Good, a non-profit that, among other things, focuses on community-building in marginalized regions of Latin America. Jeff also serves as a board member and advisor for Global Action, an international non-profit that provides theological education for underserved leaders in the Global South. Jeff holds a B.A. in theological studies from Northwestern College; an M.A. in Education from MSU-Billings and has done additional graduate studies at MSU-Bozeman. He is currently working on his PhD dissertation in World Christianity under Emma Wild-Wood at the University of Edinburgh where his research is focused on the Apsáalooke (Crow) Catholic church post-Vatican II.