Jeannine E. Olson is professor of history at Rhode Island College. She received her M.A and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her field of knowledge includes the Renaissance, the Reformation, Tudor-Stuart England, Early-Modern Europe, and the Enlightenment. Olsen has written Histoire de I'Eglise, Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and the Bourse francaise, and Deacons and Deaconesses through the Centuries, for which she received an Award of Commendation from the Concordia Historical Institute.