Hannah Matis

Hannah Matis

Hannah Matis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Church History at Virginia Theological Seminary. She believes history is never about a string of dates, but about stories: the stories we tell ourselves about the past, true and false, the stories of forgotten people we can piece together from fragmentary bits of evidence, the stories of ways of life that are now lost to us. She reminds her students that more often than not, history is far more alive in our present than we think.