John Sommerville, Vice President for Finance and Operations/CFO, joined the Northwestern administration in November 2021. Sommerville’s area of oversight at Northwestern includes a variety of the organization’s day-to-day operations, including business and finance, facility operations, campus safety, and information technology.

Sommerville’s vocational background features a blend of both ministry and business functions. He has had successful tenures as a senior pastor, an executive pastor, and in corporate business. After serving as executive pastor of the Wooddale Center, a ministry of Wooddale Church (Eden Prairie, Minn.), for six years, Sommerville left to become the founding pastor of City Church in Minneapolis for 16 years. Prior to his church ministry experience, John held various positions at General Mills, including the management of Cheerios and responsibility for new products and new market development for the company’s cereal division in Europe.

Sommerville has extensive board experience, having served as a past board chair for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. He currently serves on the board and chairs the finance committee for Christianity Today.

In addition to his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas, John has earned an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and a Master of Arts degree in Christian Thought from Bethel Theological Seminary (Arden Hills, Minn.). He is an ordained minister in the Converge denomination.

Greg Rosauer is the Archivist at UNW’s Berntsen Library. He also teaches various classes in Biblical and Theological Studies including the Gospel of Mark, Selected Psalms, and Systematic Theology. His research interests include 20th century evangelical and fundamentalist history especially related to Northwestern. And his favorite theological interest is the Christian doctrine of atonement. As a librarian, he loves helping students navigate the complex world of theological literature.

Professional Accomplishments

Publications

• Contributor and co-editor with Ardel Caneday and Anna Rask. For it Stands in Scripture: Essays in Honor of W. Edward Glenny. Saint Paul: University of Northwestern, Berntsen Library, 2019.

Presentations

• “Billy Graham’s Northwestern Years (1948-1952) and Emerging Evangelical and Fundamentalist Identities” presented at the Conference on Faith and History. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, October 5, 2018.

Reviews

• Review of Atonement and Purification: Priestly and Assyro-Babylonian Perspectives on Sin and Its Consequences, by Isabel Cranz. The Christian Librarian 61 (2018): 95-96.
• Review of Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics, edited by Oliver Crisp and Fred Sanders. The Christian Librarian 60 (2017): 101-102.
• Review of The SBL Handbook of Style: for Biblical Studies and Related Disciplines, Second Edition, by SBL Press. Theological Librarianship 9 (2016): 54-56.
• Review of “In Christ” in Paul: Explorations in Paul’s Theology of Union and Participation, edited by Michael J. Thate, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Constantine R. Campbell. The Christian Librarian 59 (2016): 157-158.
• Review of Biblical Hermeneutics: A Comprehensive Introduction to Interpreting Scripture, edited by Bruce Corley, Steve Lemke, and Grant Lovejoy. The Christian Librarian 58 (2015): 131-132.

Memberships

• American Theological Library Association (ATLA)
• Association of Christian Librarians (ACL)
• Conference on Faith and History (CFH)
• Evangelical Theological Society (ETS)
• Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)