Ronald C. Jantz

Ronald C. Jantz has had varied careers in science and technology at AT&T Bell Labs and as a librarian at Rutgers University. In his librarian career, he turned his research interests to organizational change and innovation in nonprofit groups. In this work, he published a book based on his PhD dissertation entitled "Managing Creativity: The Innovative Research Library." Throughout these years, he has also pursued an interest in history and religion. As a retired Librarian Emeritus from Rutgers University, he is now turning his interest in nonprofits to religious groups with this first publication on the Anabaptists and conservative Mennonites—"Living in the World: How Conservative Mennonites Preserved the Anabaptism of the Sixteenth Century." Ron’s life experiences bring both an intimacy and a degree of distance in his writing about the Mennonites, having lived among a mix of relatives, friends, and parents who were in and out of one of the more conservative Mennonite groups, informally known as the Holdeman Church.