Susan Schultz Huxman

Susan Schultz Huxman is an American academic administrator serving as the ninth president of Eastern Mennonite University since 2017. Her research focuses on communication studies and rhetoric, particularly in areas of pacifism and Mennonite discourse.

Education Huxman graduated from Bethel College in 1982 with a B.A. in English. She went on to earn both a M.A. (1986) and a Ph.D. (1988) in communication from the University of Kansas. Her doctoral research focused on Mennonite rhetoric during World War I, with her dissertation titled In the World But Not of it: Mennonite Rhetoric in World War I as an Enactment of Paradox. Wilmer A. Linkugel was her doctoral advisor. In addition to her administrative duties, she has maintained a role in teaching and mentoring students.

Personal life Huxman has been active in the Mennonite community throughout her life. She has served on the board of directors of the Mennonite Education Agency (MEA) from 2001 to 2007 and has been involved in the Western District Conference of Mennonite Church USA. She is a member of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ontario, and was previously a member of Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church in Wichita, Kansas, for twenty years.

Huxman is married to Jesse Huxman, a former director of communications at the Mennonite Foundation of Canada and former director of content at KPTS-TV 8. They have three adult children.