Elaine Van Kley

This scholarship was established to encourage young scholars to seek relationships and influences among countries and people of the world, to merge faith and learning in the broadest sense. Since both Ed and Elaine had the privilege of realizing this world and faith view at Calvin College as students and staff, forty-six years in all, they are pleased to offer this scholarship to encourage future students to pursue this integration and embrace world knowledge.

Ed spent his professional life researching and writing in this manner. Though he published many articles and book chapters, his most ambitious project was co-authoring the third volume, four books, of Asia in the Making of Europe with Donald Lach of the University of Chicago. History department colleagues regard Van Kley’s work a magnificent testimony to the idea of Calvin’s faculty pursuing and accomplishing both excellent teaching and first-rate scholarship. Elaine spent her career at Calvin College as the theater productions costume designer in the Communications, Arts & Sciences Department.