Eli Plopper
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University Writing Program
Degrees
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame; M.A., History, University of Notre Dame, 2008;
M.A., Church History, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2006; B.A. Classics, History, and Religion,
Hillsdale College, 2002.
Profile
Eli is currently writing his doctoral dissertation, in which he explains how some major Protestant groups in Britain and America came to accept contraceptives in the first half of the twentieth-century. When he is not plumbing the primary source depths, he can be found in the wonderful, if sometimes rowdy, company of his wife and children. Eli enjoys activity of all varieties, from pick up basketball to croquet. He delights in the warm company of fresh coffee.
Recent Scholarly Activity
“Strictly Private and Confidential: How a Cultural Habit Shaped the Debate Over Birth Control” at the SHAFR
Summer Institute, Madison, WI, 2010
“The Neglected Controversy: What’s the Good of Sex?” Conference on Faith and History, George Fox University,
Newberg, OR, 2010
