Mark R. Elliott
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, taught European history for 34 years, including thirteen years as director of the Institute for East-West Christian Studies, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and six years as director of the Global Center, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.
He is the author of Pawns of Yalta; Soviet Refugees and America’s Role in Their Repatriation (University of Illinois Press) and some 130 articles on history and church-state relations in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet republics. He founded the East-West Church and Ministry Report (www.eastwestreport.org) in 1993 and served as editor for 25 years, serving as editor emeritus since 2017.
In 2016 he and his wife helped fund five greenhouses in Ukraine in support of church-based charities including an alcohol rehab center and orphan foster homes, with results documented in Ukrainian, Russian, and English in Greenhouse Gardening for the Purpose of Self-sustaining Ministry in the Former Soviet Union (Rivne, Ukraine: 2018).
